- Preface
- 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It
- 2. The Song of the Komos
- 3. The Lyre and the Phallus
- 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only?
- 5. Failure and Success
- 6. The Birds: The Uncensored Fantasy
- 7. Requiem for a Genre?
- 8. The Comic Catastrophe
- 9. O Menander! O Life!
- 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance
- 11. A Plautine Problem Play
- 12. Terence: The African Connection
- 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy
- 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil
- 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude
- 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros
- 17. Twelfth Night: Dark Clouds over Illyria
- 18. Molière: The Class of ’68
- 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum
- 20. Comedy Explodes
- 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy
- Coda
- Notes
- Index
The Death of Comedy
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ISBN 9780674012479
Publication Date: 10/30/2003
Awards & Accolades
- Honorable Mention, 2001 Association of American Publishers PSP Award, Literature and Language Category
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