T C 357: Comedy, Ancient and Modern
Unique number 41090
Spring, 2005,
Timothy Moore

Works on Reserve in PCL

Bentley, Eric, The Life of the Drama (New York 1964). 809.2 B446L
Includes the excerpt we will read on comedy as well as wide-ranging discussions of drama in general.

Bentley, Eric (ed.), The Classic Theatre. Volume 1: Six Italian Plays (Garden City, N.Y. 1958). 852.08 B446C V.1
Includes The Three Cuckolds, which we will discuss in class.

Corrigan, Robert Willoughby, Comedy: a Critical Anthology (Boston 1971).
PN 6111 C63
This anthology includes the excerpts from Bergson and Freud that we will discuss in class, as well as excerpts from several other comic theorists and texts of twelve comedies.

Freud, Sigmund, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. (New York 1989). PN 6149 P5 F6813 1989 PCL Stacks
The entire text of Freud's work on comedy, from which we will read excerpts.

Frye, Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism. Four Essays (Princeton 1957). PN 81 F75
Includes the essay on genres and myth from which we will read an excerpt and three other essays on literary genres.

Kenny, Don, The Kyogen Book: An Anthology of Japanese Classical Comedies (Tokyo 1989). PL 782 E5 K964 1989
Texts of a wide range of kyôgen, including those we will discuss in class.

Rodgers, Hart, and Abbott, The Boys From Syracuse. Uncatalogued.

Sypher, Wylie, Comedy (Garden City, N.Y. 1956). 808.7 SY79C
Includes the whole text of Bergson's essay on comedy, from which we will read excerpts, as well as essays on comedy by Meredith and by Sypher himself.