Playboys and Killjoys An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy

Name: Playboys and Killjoys An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy
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ISBN: 9780195048773

ISBN-10: 0195048776

ISBN-13: 9780195048773

Edition: 1988

Authors: Harry Levin

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Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors.Viewing the comic repertory as a richly varied yet broadly unified whole, Levin provides a synthesis of theories and practice. Isolating two fundamental aspects of comedy--the ludicrous and irreverent "playboy," whom we laugh with, and the ridiculous and forbidding "killjoy," whom we laugh at--he traces the dialectical interplay of these components throughout history and across various cultures and media.…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/8/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



Points of Departure



Coming to Terms



Rules of the Game



The Argument



Bonds of Interest



Reductions to Folly



The Truth of Masks



Duplicities



Zanyism



Domesticities



Designs for Living



Mixed Emotions



Metacomedy


Supplementary Essays



From Play to Plays



Notes on City Comedy



Veins of Humor



The Wages of Satire


Index