... closing line as “providing an absurd blindness to the tragic heights reached before his arrival.” 28 Attentiveness to the play’s opening might have helped. Doris V. Falk ( 1958 : 94) usefully adduces the “loutish sons of the soil” Peter and Simeon Cabot in arguing that the play “begins as comedy...

...Robert D. Hume Some 250 English comedies are set in London between circa 1600 and 1737. Three clichés about them remain current. First, “Jacobean city comedy” performs serious sociopolitical work. Second, the social level of the protagonists rises in the “comedy of wit” or “comedy of manners...

.... 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...

...Arthur W. Hoffman Frank Harper Moore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. 264 pp. $6.00. Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 498 REVIEWS The Nobler Pleasure: Dryden’s Comedy in Theory and Practice...

... portrait for the dust jacket and frontispiece, would no doubt have pleased his subject. JOHN R. CARY Haverford College The Dark Comedy: The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy. By J. L. STYAN. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1962...

....” 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...

...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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...’ 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...

...Glending Olson REVIEWS Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in lhe “Canterbury Tales.” By LAURAKEN- DKICK. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1988. xi + 215 pp. $28.00. So much has been written recently about literature as play...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...John S.J.V. Curry REVIEWS The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy. By M. C. BRADBROOK. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. Pp. ix + 246. $4.50. This book outlines the growth of Elizabethan comedy...

...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...

... work. CURTISC. D. VAIL University of Washington The Esthetic Intent of Tieck’s Fantastic Comedy. By RAYMONDM. IMMERWAHR. Saint Louis : Washington University Studies, New Series, Language and Literature, No. 22, 1953. Pp. ix...

...Ilse Appelbaum Graham Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE BROKEN PITCHER: HERO OF KLEIST’S COMEDY By ILSEAPPELRAUM GRAHAFvi Jesus said unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed...