Comedy A Critical Introduction

Name: Comedy A Critical Introduction
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ISBN: 9781845194789

ISBN-10: 1845194780

ISBN-13: 9781845194789

Edition: 2011

Authors: Eli Rozik

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Herewith an original approach to the study of comedy. While assimilating theoretical insights from Aristotle to the present day, it contests, inter alia, the theory of comedy's ritual origin; challenges the age-old and continuing attempts to determine the structure of action that characterises comedy; and suggests instead that structures of action are shared by all genres, and that it is the specific mood that accounts for their differences. Mood is a prism through which a playwright wishes the spectator to perceive a fictional world. Comedy is characterised by its light-hearted mood, which generates a specific kind of laughter. If mood determines the genre of a fictional world, in contrast…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 8/24/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Eli Rozik is professor of theatre studies at Tel Aviv University and editor of the international journal "Assaph: Studies in the Theatre," He is the author of "Metaphor in Theatre and Poetry," "The Language of the Theatre," and "Elements of Play Analysis,"