Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy

by Harry T. Levin

Overview

Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their successors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198021551
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	374 KB

About the Author

Harry Levin is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Harvard University and author of The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists, The Question of Hamlet, and Shakespeare and the Revolution of the Times.