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Description edit
In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Terence: Add a description of this character.
- Menander
- Ben Jonson
- Beckett
- Helen
- Volpone
- Pamphilus
- Amphitryon
- Orestes
- Zeus
- Horner
- Molière
- Machiavelli
- Olivia
- Marlowe
- Antipholus
- Ionesco
- Jarry
- Margery
- Harpagon
- Sebastian
- Freud
- Godot
- Adriana
- Dromio
- Philocleon
- George Dandin
- Horace
- Strepsiades
- Chaplin
- Wycherley
- Cocteau
- Mosca
- Lucrezia
- Simo
- Alithea
- Luciana
- Didi
- Shakespeare
- Toby
- Apollinaire
- Alcmena
- Casina
- Shaw
- Malvolio
- Frye
- Trygaeus
- Mrs. Smith
Setting & Locations edit
- Plautus
- Euripides
- Athens
- Jupiter
- Iphigenia
- Greece
- Ubu
- Mandragola
- Paris
- Boccaccio
- Ephesus
- Hecyra
- Beaumarchais
- New Comedy
- Nicia
- London
- Hera
- Florence
- France
- Venice
- Illyria
- Malta
- Plautine
- Amphitruo
- Syracuse
- Menaechmi
- Rome
- England
- Old Comedy
- Egypt
- Orsino
- Egeon
- Tiresias
- Sparta
- Knemon
- Callimaco
- Italy
- Hades
- Thersites
- Poland
- Carthage
- Erotium
- Messenio
- China
- Laches
- Birdland
- Figaro
- Sophocles
- Oresteia
- Aulis
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 809
Subjects edit
- Books › Arts & Photography › Performing Arts › Theater › History & Criticism
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › Greek & Roman
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › History
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Comedy
- Books › History
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