Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: Thinking about comedy
- Chapter 1 Reading comedy
- Chapter 2 Comedy's foundations
- Chapter 3 Comedy's devices
- Chapter 4 Comedy in the flesh
- Chapter 5 Comedy's range
- Chapter 6 Comedy and society
- Notes
- Further reading
- List of texts
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Introductions to …
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: Thinking about comedy
- Chapter 1 Reading comedy
- Chapter 2 Comedy's foundations
- Chapter 3 Comedy's devices
- Chapter 4 Comedy in the flesh
- Chapter 5 Comedy's range
- Chapter 6 Comedy and society
- Notes
- Further reading
- List of texts
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Introductions to …
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy , pp. 227 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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