The Cambridge introduction to comedy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Weitz, Eric (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: Greek
• Έκδοση: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Σειρά: Cambridge introductions to literature
• Θέματα: Κωμωδία > Ιστορία και κριτική > Θεωρία, κτλ.; Κωμικό, το

 How do we identify something as comedy? How does reading a comic text differ from reading other kinds of texts? How does comedy relate to social, cultural, and political issues? From Aristotle to the commedia dell'arte, from Wilde to Albee, this Introduction uses these and many other examples from the vast history and range of the comedy genre to investigate comedy's patterns, characteristics, and mechanisms. Focusing on dramatic texts, the book also refers to literature, film, and television throughout, exploring how comedy affects and inhabits other worlds and genres. 

  List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction : thinking about comedy -- First things -- Play -- What is comedy? -- Something to make us laugh? -- Happy endings -- The world brought down to Earth -- Summing up before moving on -- 1. Reading comedy -- 'What kind of world is this?' -- Formal and textual elements -- Entering the world of comedy -- Comedy in the end -- 2. Comedy's foundations -- Back to (what we call) the beginning -- The fingerprints of Old Comedy -- Our old friend, New Comedy -- New Comedy in Roman hands -- 3. Comedy's devices -- Towards a study of comic traits -- Humour and its mechanics -- Humour and the dramatic text -- Mine the gap : the reader's view -- Mine the gap : the spectator's access -- 4. Comedy in the flesh -- Comedy for the stage of the mind -- Performance fabric and outlining -- Reading comic bodies and voices -- The commedia dell'arte -- The clown -- Reading comic character (mask) -- Reading comic dialogue (lazzi) -- Comic metaphysics -- 5. Comedy's range -- Dramatic texture and the comic -- The comic and the tragic -- The deadly serious treated playfully -- The comic beyond the 'realistic' -- Comic latitude in production -- 6. Comedy and society -- Comedy's associates -- Comedy's politics -- Notes -- Further reading -- List of texts -- Bibliography -- Index.