The dark comedy : the development of modern comic tragedy /
| Основен автор: | Styan, J. L. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge [Eng.] :
University Press,
1962.
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Dark comedy. |
Съдържание:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- On tears and laughter
- Form or formula?
- Euripides, medieval mystery plays
- Marlowe
- Shakespeare
- Moliere
- Tragedy and tragicomedy
- Types of comedy
- Naturalistic shading
- Early naturalism
- Portents in Ibsen
- Strindberg's naturalism
- Chekhov
- Analysis: The Cherry Orchard, Act IV
- The 'mood' play
- Towards tragic inversion
- A new freedom form
- Strindberg's dream plays
- The Shavian touch
- Synge and O'Casey
- Pirandello
- Analysis: Henry IV, Act III
- Counterpoint and hysteria
- Eliot's 'doubleness'
- Brecht's 'alienation'
- Anouilh
- Analysis: tragicomic counterpoint in Ardele and Colombe
- Tennessee Williams
- Beckett, Ionesco, and some others
- The dark comedy
- Involving the audience
- Irony as a controlling agent
- The comic-pathetic hero
- The dark tone
- Unholy joy: attitudes of dramatist and audience
- Didacticism and despair.