TY - BOOK AU - Barnet,Sylvan TI - Eight great comedies, T2 - A Mentor book, MD216 AV - PN6112 .B29 U1 - 808.82 PY - 1958///] CY - [New York] PB - New American Library KW - Drama KW - Collections KW - Comedy KW - Addresses, essays, lectures N1 - The comic view: an introduction.--The comedies: The clouds, by Aristophanes. Mandragola, by N. Machiavelli. Twelfth night, by W. Shakespeare. The miser, by Moliaere. The beggar's opera, by J. Gay. The importance of being Earnest, by O. Wilde. Uncle Vanya, by A. Chekhov. Arms and the man, by G. B. Shaw.--The essays: On the comic spirit, by G. K. Chesterton. Comedy, by B. Dobraee. The comic rhythm, by S. K. Langer. The structure of comedy, by N. Frye.--Bibliography (p. [470]-[472]) ER -