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... comedy , " to distinguish it from the " high romantic comedy " of such plays as Twelfth Night . Of these early plays , only The Comedy of Errors , with its Roman affinities , was not written for the public theater . The others show a ...
... comedy , " to distinguish it from the " high romantic comedy " of such plays as Twelfth Night . Of these early plays , only The Comedy of Errors , with its Roman affinities , was not written for the public theater . The others show a ...
Page 313
... comedy of humors inevitably avoids that problem . Comedy be- comes satire , character becomes oddity , evil becomes culpable folly . There is humor enough ( in the modern sense ) in Jonson's comedy ; he presents his obsessed characters ...
... comedy of humors inevitably avoids that problem . Comedy be- comes satire , character becomes oddity , evil becomes culpable folly . There is humor enough ( in the modern sense ) in Jonson's comedy ; he presents his obsessed characters ...
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... comedy of intrigue here , too , but the plays have a boisterous realism of their own . The very titles suggest the atmosphere - A Trick to Catch the Old One , A Mad World , my Masters , A Chaste Maid in Cheapside . The last of these ...
... comedy of intrigue here , too , but the plays have a boisterous realism of their own . The very titles suggest the atmosphere - A Trick to Catch the Old One , A Mad World , my Masters , A Chaste Maid in Cheapside . The last of these ...
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