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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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
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