Reader in Comedy
by Magda Romanska , Alan Ackerman
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First published: 2016
1 language
ISBN: 9781474247917
Description
This book presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships between comedy, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, and other arts and genres.
