The Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays, from Ancient Greece to Modern TimesCrown Publishers, 1984 - 866 Seiten From the classics of ancient Greece to the best of modern American theater, this guide provides a plot synopsis, stage history, cast listing, analysis, and critical opinions for each of 750 outstanding plays. |
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Joseph Twadell Shipley. No Time For Comedy is both a comedy and an examination of the comic dramatist in serious times . The author in the play , Gaylord Easterbrook , has written many star comic parts for his wife , Linda . Now , having ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley. No Time For Comedy is both a comedy and an examination of the comic dramatist in serious times . The author in the play , Gaylord Easterbrook , has written many star comic parts for his wife , Linda . Now , having ...
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... Comedy ( 1775 ) observed : " The Man of Mode shines as our first genteel comedy ; the touches are natural and delicate , and never overcharged . . . almost the best comedy we have . " The Man of Mode presents society at the height of ...
... Comedy ( 1775 ) observed : " The Man of Mode shines as our first genteel comedy ; the touches are natural and delicate , and never overcharged . . . almost the best comedy we have . " The Man of Mode presents society at the height of ...
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... comedy , the byplay of jest and the ending of reconciliation . But the limits of comedy , which may be serious but must be suave , are sorely strained . There is a cruel hint in the laughter , and the engineer of the reconciliation is ...
... comedy , the byplay of jest and the ending of reconciliation . But the limits of comedy , which may be serious but must be suave , are sorely strained . There is a cruel hint in the laughter , and the engineer of the reconciliation is ...
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