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Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy
Playboys and Killjoys An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy
Author: Harry Levin
Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors. Viewing the comic repertory as a richly varied yet broadly ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195048773
ISBN-10: 0195048776
Publication Date: 9/8/1988
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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