The Death of ComedyIn a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd. |
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... sexual activity cur- rently and disapprovingly associated with the term “ orgy . ” The cata- logue of such festivals is time - honored and timeless . Frazer remarked upon the great number of fertility rites involving sexual intercourse ...
... sexual and farming terminology found in many cultures . ) The reinvigoration of the Chorus prefigures the return of the hero's own sexual prowess . In fact , something in his intensifying libido already seems to radiate new sexuality ...
... Sexual Behavior in Classical Athens , ” in Before Sexual- ity : The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World , ed . David M. Halperin , John J. Winkler , and Froma I. Zeitlin ( Princeton , 1990 ) , pp . 171-210 . 24 ...
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Getting to the Root of It I | 1 |
The Song of the Kōmos ΙΟ | 10 |
The Lyre and the Phallus | 27 |
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