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English Comedy

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Editors:
Michael Cordner, University of York
Peter Holland, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
John Kerrigan, St John's College, Cambridge

Michael Cordner, Peter Holland, John Kerrigan, Richard Beadle, Stephen Orgel, Jonas Barish, Barbara Everett, Adrian Poole, John Creaser, Martin Butler, Richard Rowland, Gillian Beer, Jonathan Wordsworth, Jonathan Bate, Eric Griffiths

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Date Published: January 2007
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521032902

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Why does comedy matter? Is it celebratory or subversive? What makes it flourish, and which creative forces resist it? English Comedy addresses these and related questions by invoking a variety of works from Aristophanes to Walt Disney, while focusing on the traditions of comic writing in England. Poetry, the novel and (above all) drama are examined to assess the constrictions and liberations of genre, the negotiations or divergences between comic practice and theory, and the dynamics of theatrical language. Ranging from medieval and Renaissance drama through Romantic poetry to twentieth-century literature and philosophy, English Comedy makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the heritage of comic writing.
- These essays are written by a combination of well-known names and younger scholars
- Ranges over a number of literary periods
- Brings together questions of theory and (especially theatrical) practice
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- Date Published: January 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521032902
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.507kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
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1. Introduction Michael Cordner, Peter Holland and John Kerrigan
2. Crab's pedigree Richard Beadle
3. The comedian as the character C Stephen Orgel
4. Mixed verse and prose in Shakespearean comedy Jonas Barish
5. Much Ado About Nothing: the unsociable comedy Barbara Everett
6. Laughter, forgetting and Shakespeare Adrian Poole
7. Enigmatic Ben Jonson John Creaser
8. A New Way to Pay Old Debts: Massinger's grim comedy Martin Butler
9. 'Thou teachest me humanitie': Thomas Heywood's The English Traveller Richard Rowland
10. Etherege's She Would If She Could: comedy, complaisance and anti-climax Michael Cordner
11. Rhyming as comedy: body, ghost and banquet Gillian Beer
12. Wordsworthian comedy Jonathan Wordsworth
13. Apeing romanticism Jonathan Bate
14. A complete history of comic noses John Kerrigan
15. Noël Coward and comic geometry Peter Holland
16. Ludwig Wittgenstein and the comedy of errors Eric Griffiths
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Editors
Michael Cordner, University of York
Peter Holland, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
John Kerrigan, St John's College, Cambridge
Contributors
Michael Cordner, Peter Holland, John Kerrigan, Richard Beadle, Stephen Orgel, Jonas Barish, Barbara Everett, Adrian Poole, John Creaser, Martin Butler, Richard Rowland, Gillian Beer, Jonathan Wordsworth, Jonathan Bate, Eric Griffiths