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... tragedy and comedy . These forms are far more common than the others , and in fact often include or subsume them . The names ' tragedy ' and ' comedy ' derive from the Greek words tragos , meaning goat , and komos , meaning revel . In ...
... tragedy and comedy . These forms are far more common than the others , and in fact often include or subsume them . The names ' tragedy ' and ' comedy ' derive from the Greek words tragos , meaning goat , and komos , meaning revel . In ...
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... tragedy of an aeroplane crash is a very different thing from a literary tragedy , as is the comedy of funny stories and jokes told by a television entertainer from what takes place in a play . As a serious art form , comedy is generally ...
... tragedy of an aeroplane crash is a very different thing from a literary tragedy , as is the comedy of funny stories and jokes told by a television entertainer from what takes place in a play . As a serious art form , comedy is generally ...
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... tragedy had thus come into being . Modern Tragedy and Tragi - Comedy Modern tragedy , on the other hand , has characters of quite bourgeois origins and even less than average pretensions . A more fundamental difference , however ...
... tragedy had thus come into being . Modern Tragedy and Tragi - Comedy Modern tragedy , on the other hand , has characters of quite bourgeois origins and even less than average pretensions . A more fundamental difference , however ...
Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Drama and the Theatre | 101 |
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