Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan: Change and Continuity in the English and European Dramatic Tradition : Essays in Honor of Eugene M. WaithA. R. Braunmuller, James C. Bulman University of Delaware Press, 1986 - 290 Seiten This volume of essays traces the evolution of comedy from its flowering during the Renaissance to the era when the prose novel became the dominant fictional form. |
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
G K Hunter Comedy Farce Romance | 27 |
Alvin B Kernan Shakespearian Comedy and Its Courtly | 91 |
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