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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 372–373.
Published: 01 December 1960
... representative nature for an important segment of thought. But, at Geneva between 1546 and 1568, only two plays (if Chambers has been exhaustive) were allowed performance, and one of these was a comedy of Terence (1549). Similarly, in her useful exposition of Biblical plays acted and written...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 458–460.
Published: 01 September 1942
.... HENRYS. LUCAS University of H4ishington The Theatre of the Basoche. The Contribution of the Law Societies to French Mediaeval Comedy. By HOWARDGRAHAM HARVEY. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1941 (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages, 17). Pp. 255...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (1): 88–90.
Published: 01 March 1980
... the Troubled AgeriI: T?~igeid Meloduivio o)i the iZlodvm Stcigr) (1973). Considered alone, Tii~Wqs of tliv World is as good a book ;is has e\fer been written on comedy; taken as a capstone to an edifice erected in a decade, it can be seen to add to the power of’ its already f0rmidable predecessors...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 March 1968
....” REUBENA. BROWER Haruard University Lessing and the hnguage of Comedy. By MICHAELM. METZGER.The Hague and Paris: Mouton, Studies in German Literature, VIII, 1966. 247 pp. 30 guilders. Michael Metzger supports his main thesis that “there is a continuity of style from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 161–167.
Published: 01 June 1968
...Geoffrey Greigh Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 ZELAUTO AND ITALIAN COMEDY A STUDY IN SOURCES By GEOFFREYCREIGH The “pound of flesh” story is traditional and common to many cultures. The principal...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 356–358.
Published: 01 September 1968
.... ERNESTWILLIAM TALBERT University of North Carolina The Sons of Ben: Jonsonian Comedy in Caroline England. By JOE LEE DAVIS.Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967. 252 pp. $8.95. The Sons of Ben-the minor Caroline comic dramatist+who reads them? To put the question more...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (2): 183–197.
Published: 01 June 1969
...John G. Hayman Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 DORIMANT AND THE COMEDY OF A MAN OF MODE By JOHN G. HAYMAN I will take for granted, that a fine Gentleman should be honest in his Actions, and refined in his Language...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (4): 436–441.
Published: 01 December 1986
... is a critic and thus risks, along with the rest of us, that “any fresh attempt of the part of the critic to fix the comedy of theDecameroia with stable definitions may turn out to be a hazard, a way of falling into the author’s unconscionable trap and being caught, like thejudge, in the spirals...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (2): 91–107.
Published: 01 June 1986
...Thomas P. Hennings Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 THE ANGLICAN DOCTRINE OF THE AFFECTIONATE MARRIAGE IN THE COMEDY OF ERRORS By THOMASP. HENNINGS...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 242–253.
Published: 01 September 1987
...’ TOM JONES THE COMEDY OF KNOWLEDGE BJJJOHN UNSWORTH Pope’s couplet expresses a dilemma that was of particular im- portance during the Augustan Age-the inadequacy of reason to the discovery of design. Mortals forced by circumstances to judge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (1): 75–76.
Published: 01 March 1958
...John S.J.V. Curry M. C. Bradbrook. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. Pp. ix + 246. $4.50. Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 REVIEWS The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy. By M. C. BRADBROOK...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 228–234.
Published: 01 September 1960
...Judd D. Hubert Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 THE COMEDY OF INCOMPATIBILITY IN MOLIGRE’S DON GARCIE DE NAVARRE By JUDD D. HUBERT W. D. Howarth has proved that Don Garcie de Navarre, far from being a misguided venture...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 262–264.
Published: 01 September 1960
..., parallel manifestations of the same pattern of culture. The author is, of course, careiul to point out that Shakespeare did not invent a comedy to express the so-called saturnalian pattern, but “started work with theatrical and literary sources already highly developed.” In fact, he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 270–271.
Published: 01 September 1960
... with the critical apparatus which Charles Lillie’s volumes so much need. ROBERTJ. ALLEN IVillinms College Comedy and Society from Conyrcve to Fielding. By JOHN LOFTIS. Stanford: Stanford Studies in Language and Literature, XIX, 1959...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 109–110.
Published: 01 March 1949
.... JOHN J. PARRY {Jniversity of Illinois The Love-Game Comedy. By DAVIDLLOYD STEVENSON. Xew York: Columbia University Press, 1947. Pp. xii + 259. $3.25. The title of Mr. Stevenson’s study The Love-Game Comedy is sug- gested by the three “comedies of courtship,” Love’s Labour’s Lost...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 367–376.
Published: 01 September 1949
...Edward Stone Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 SWIFT AND THE HORSES : MISANTHROPY OR COMEDY? By EDWARDSTONE Some thirteen years ago Ricardo Quintana attempted to raise the siege that criticism has laid to Part...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 233–234.
Published: 01 June 1951
.... ARNOLDSTEIN University of Washington The Goy CoupZe in Restoration Comedy. By JOHN HARRINGTONSMITH. Cam- bridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1948. Pp. vii + 252. $3.50. Professor Smith’s book is a study of the love duel between two young people who “disown the scandal...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 214–215.
Published: 01 June 1952
...Leslie A. Marchand Thomas Marc Parrott. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. Pp. xiv + 417. $6.50. Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 REVIEWS Shukespearean Comedy. By THOMASMARC PARROTT. New York: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1949...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 365–376.
Published: 01 December 1971
...Stephen L. Wailes Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 BEDROOM COMEDY IN THE iVZBELUNGENLfED By STEPHENL. WAILES Gunther’s wedding nights are among the,more famous episodes of the Nibelwzgenlied and are perhaps the most difficult...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 151–157.
Published: 01 June 1963
...P. H. Davison YOLPONE AND THE OLD COMEDY By P. H. DAVISON Although Jonson called filpone “quick commdie, refined this description has not satisfied critics puzzled by the precise nature of the play. Edward B. Partridge, in his illuminating study...