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List of illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction: Thinking about comedy 1
First things 1
Play 3
What is comedy? 7
Something to make us laugh? 8
Happy endings 10
The world brought down to earth 12
Summing up before moving on 18
Chapter 1 Reading comedy 20
'What kind of world is this?' 20
Formal and textual elements 23
Entering the world of comedy 26
Comedy in the end 35
Chapter 2 Comedy's foundations 39
Back to (what we call) the beginning 39
The fingerprints of Old Comedy 42
Our old friend, New Comedy 50
New Comedy in Roman hands 58
Chapter 3 Comedy's devices 63
Towards a study of comic traits 63
Humour and its mechanics 63
Humour and the dramatic text 69
Mine the gap: the reader's view 72
Mine the gap: the spectator's access 86
Chapter 4 Comedy in the flesh 93
Comedy for the stage of the mind 93
Performance fabric and outlining 95
Reading comic bodies and voices 96
The commedia dell'arte 102
The clown 110
Reading comic character (mask) 114
Reading comic dialogue (lazzi) 120
Comic metaphysics 127
Chapter 5 Comedy's range 131
Dramatic texture and the comic 131
The comic and the tragic 132
The deadly serious treated playfully 140
The comic beyond the 'realistic' 142
Comic latitude in production 161
Chapter 6 Comedy and society 171
Comedy's associates 171
Comedy's politics 190
Notes 207
Further reading 222
List of texts 224
Bibliography 227
Index 237
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