This unique anthology 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.
Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an
invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle
through to the twenty-first century, in which special attention has
been paid to writings since the start of the twentieth century.
Reader in Comedy is arranged in five sections, each featuring an
introduction providing concise and informed historical and
theoretical frameworks for the texts from the period: * Antiquity
and the Middle Ages * The Renaissance * Restoration to Romanticism
* The Industrial Age * The Twentieth and Early Twenty-First
Centuries Among the many authors included are: Plato, Aristotle,
Horace, Donatus, Dante Alighieri, Erasmus, Trissino, Sir Thomas
Elyot, Thomas Wilson, Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Battista
Guarini, Moliere, William Congreve, John Dryden, Henry Fielding,
Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Jean Paul Richter, William
Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Soren Kierkegaard, Charles Baudelaire,
Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Henri Bergson, Constance Rourke, Northrop
Frye, Jacques Derrida, Mikhail Bakhtin, Georges Bataille, Simon
Critchley and Michael North. As the selection demonstrates, from
Plato and Aristotle to Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud, comedy has
attracted the attention of serious thinkers. Bringing together
diverse theories of comedy from across the ages, the Reader reveals
that, far from being peripheral, comedy speaks to the most
pragmatic aspects of human life.
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