The Death of Comedy / / Erich Segal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Segal, Erich,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (607 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It --; 2. The Song of the Komos --; 3. The Lyre and the Phallus --; 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only? --; 5. Failure and Success --; 6. The Birds: The Uncensored Fantasy --; 7. Requiem for a Genre? --; 8. The Comic Catastrophe --; 9. O Menander! O Life! --; 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance --; 11. A Plautine Problem Play --; 12. Terence: The African Connection --; 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy --; 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil --; 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude --; 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros --; 17. Twelfth Night: Dark Clouds over Illyria --; 18. Molière: The Class of ’68 --; 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum --; 20. Comedy Explodes --; 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy --; Coda --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674043411; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674043411?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Erich Segal.

In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd.