Comedy of the impossible : the power of play in post-War European drama
By tracing the development of theories of comedy within Western philosophy, this thesis claims that anti-comic prejudices prevented comedy from being recognized as a serious genre. Comedy's inferior status for over two thousand years is shown to correspond to an ethical model that distinguishes...
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University of Kent
2016
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.705871 |