Comedy: A Critical Anthology

by Robert W. Corrigan (Editor), Glenn Meredith Loney (Editor)

Includes:
☞ Lysistrata / Aristophanes
☞ Twelfth Night / William Shakespeare
☞ Volpone / Ben Jonson
☞ Tartuffe / Molière ; translated by James L. Rosenberg
☞ The School For Scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan
☞ The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde
☞ The Cherry Orchard / Anton Chekhov
☞ The Playboy of the Western World / John Millington Synge
☞ Misalliance / Bernard Shaw
☞ The Madwoman of Chaillot / Jean Giraudoux ; adapted by Maurice Valency
☞ Puntila and His Hired Man / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Gerhard Nellhaus
☞ The Last Analysis / Saul Bellow
☞ From "An essay on comedy" / George Meredith
☞ From "Laughter" / Henry Bergson
☞ From "Jokes and the comic" / Sigmund Freud
☞ Comedy / Christopher Fry
☞ From "The meanings of comedy, by W. Sypher.
☞ From The comic rhythm, by S. K. Langer.
☞ From The life of the drama, by E. Bentley.

769 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1971

Reviews

[Richard]

(Covers several classic comedies hard to find at the SFPL:
• The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• The playboy of the western world / John Millington Synge
And many others, with commentary.)