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The Humanist Comedy

2014-05-27 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-05-27
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Book Synopsis The Humanist Comedy by : Alexander Welsh

Download or read book The Humanist Comedy written by Alexander Welsh. This book was released on 2014-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought. The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.

Humanist Comedies

2005 Drama
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Release : 2005
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Humanist Comedies by : Gary Robert Grund

Download or read book Humanist Comedies written by Gary Robert Grund. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five comedies included in this volume present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento.

Humanist Tragedies

2011-02-15 Drama
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Release : 2011-02-15
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book Humanist Tragedies written by . This book was released on 2011-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a representative sampling of Latin drama written during the Tre- and Quattrocento. The five tragedies included in this volume were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-humanist sources.

The Humanist Tradition in World Literature

1970 Humanism
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Release : 1970
Genre : Humanism
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Book Rating : 224/5 ( reviews)

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Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy

2017-11-08 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-11-08
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Book Synopsis Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy by : Richard F. Hardin

Download or read book Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy written by Richard F. Hardin. This book was released on 2017-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution of Plautus, detached from his fellow Roman dramatist Terence, and seen in the context of that European revival, first as it took shape on the Continent. The heart of the book, with special focus on English comedy ca. 1560 to 1640, analyzes elements of Plautine technique during the period, as differentiated from native and Terentian, considering such points of comparison as dialogue, asides, metadrama, observation scenes, characterization, and atmosphere. This is the first book to cover this ground, raising such questions as: How did comedy rather suddenly progress from the interludes and brief plays of the early sixteenth century to longer, more complex plays? What did “Plautus” mean to playwrights and readers of the time? Plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton are foregrounded, but many other comedies provide illustration and support.

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