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Page 165
... Comedy to the Greeks was either the scorching social satire of Aristophanes or the comedy of manners of Menander and his school . The Aristophanic comedy was a highly specialized form . It flourished only during the time of the great ...
... Comedy to the Greeks was either the scorching social satire of Aristophanes or the comedy of manners of Menander and his school . The Aristophanic comedy was a highly specialized form . It flourished only during the time of the great ...
Page 178
... comedy survives in the modern comedy of manners . But there also grew up in the late eighteenth and in the nineteenth centuries a less satirical and more highly emotional type of dramatic story which may be called romantic comedy ...
... comedy survives in the modern comedy of manners . But there also grew up in the late eighteenth and in the nineteenth centuries a less satirical and more highly emotional type of dramatic story which may be called romantic comedy ...
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... comedy is of various types . The Comedy of Errors is a farce in which mistaken identity is worked beyond all probability . Twelfth Night and As You Like It are romantic comedy , stressing not so much humor as gayety and joy . The ...
... comedy is of various types . The Comedy of Errors is a farce in which mistaken identity is worked beyond all probability . Twelfth Night and As You Like It are romantic comedy , stressing not so much humor as gayety and joy . The ...
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |