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Loading... Eight Great Comedies (1958)by Sylvan Barnet (Editor), Morton Berman (Editor), William Burto (Editor)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  funfunyay | Aug 6, 2009 |  Featuring a collection of eight comedies across the ages and from different countries, Sylvan Barnet et al manage to give a broad overview of the dramatic category, whetting the appetite, making the reader want more. From Aristophanes to Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde, this collection of classical comedies will not always make you laugh, but the will most certainly make you appreciate the dramatic craft just a bit more. With essays by noted experts preceding the works, this book is as much entertainment as it is critical analysis. Sure to please both fans of drama as well as drama critique. (  ) aethercowboy | Oct 10, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
"A remarkably rich and stimulating volume...A unique blending of emotional and intellectual experience."--Los Angeles Times Here in one volume are the complete texts of eight of the world's greatest plays, masterful examples of the comic view of life in drama. This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli's Mandragola; the poignant, searching wit of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; the ironic social comment of Shaw's Arms and the Man; and five other influential works, including a new translation of Molière's satire The Miser, which the editors have prepared especially for this book. Accompanied by provocative essays that define and explore the spirit, structure, and meaning of comedy, this unique volume is an ideal companion to the editors' Eight Great Tragedies. No library descriptions found. |
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Macchievelli is predictably amoral.
At this point, I am beginning to think that perhaps, comedy does not stand the test of time the way tregedy does.
Bad things are pretty universal.
But things that society finds funny change so wildly. "The Mandragora" is a play basically about a guy who wants to rape someone. I wasn't amused.