Comedy: A Very Short Introduction

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Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9780199601714
ISBN-13 : 0199601712
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Book Synopsis Comedy: A Very Short Introduction by : Matthew Bevis

Book excerpt: With a broad scope across the millennia, from high literature to popular culture, between page and stage and screen, this Very Short Introduction considers comedy not only as a literary genre, but also as a broader impulse at work in many other historical and contemporary forms of satire, parody, and play.


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