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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 March 1968
...).
On such “hungry Epsom prose” and the criticism it embalms, Dryden offers
the proper comment: “Trust Nature, do not labour to be dull.”
REUBENA. BROWER
Haruard University
Lessing and the hnguage of Comedy. By MICHAELM. METZGER.The
Hague and Paris...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 161–167.
Published: 01 June 1968
...Geoffrey Greigh ZELAUTO AND ITALIAN COMEDY
A STUDY IN SOURCES
By GEOFFREYCREIGH
The “pound of flesh” story is traditional and common to many
cultures. The principal versions of it generally acknowledged to have
been...
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 (1963) 24 (2): 151–157.
Published: 01 June 1963
...P. H. Davison Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 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...
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 (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 (1955) 16 (2): 176–178.
Published: 01 June 1955
... 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...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 June 1955
...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...
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 (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 (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 (2017) 78 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that drama is not sociology and that the dewy myopia of closure is part of comedy’s appeal. O’Neill has simply raised the stakes. And, granted, the sight of sinful lovers heading eastward from a “purty” rustic scene (O’Neill 1988a , 2:377) recalls a long-ago expulsion from a greener-still world. 5 Abbie...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 355–356.
Published: 01 September 1945
...
Albuinazar : A Comedy [ 16151, by Thomas Tomkis. Edited by HUGH
G. DICK.Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Pub-
lications in English, Vol. 13, 1944. Pp. x + 218. $2.00.
It is axiomatic that the excellence of an edition may be in inverse
proportion to the worth of the thing...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 358–359.
Published: 01 September 1946
... be forgiven in
view of the amount of valuable material which Mr. Utley has so
admirably presented.
HELENANDREWS KAHIN
University of Washington
Shakespearean Comedy and Other Studies. By GEORGEGORDON.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1944. Pp. vii...
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 (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...