Comedy: a critical anthology Book

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.