EAN: 9780820405384

COMEDY HIGH AND LOW - MAURICE CHARNEY KARTONIER...

In this broad-ranging exploration of the nature of comedy Professor Charney considers its
popular roots as well as the major issues in comic theory. Comedy High and Low seeks to bridge
the gap between comic literature  especially stage comedy  and the popular comedy of jokes 
graffiti  and comic happenings of everyday life. With examples taken mainly from major figures
of stage comedy from Aristophanes  Shakespeare  Jonson  the Restoration dramatists  and Molière
to Beckett  Pinter  Dürrenmatt  Stoppard  and Orton  it brings a historical perspective to the
subject  and also includes many allusions to the great film comedies of Keaton  Chaplin  Fields
and the Marx Brothers. An extensive critical bibliography supplements this provocative and
highly readable book.

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