Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Art and Craft of Letters: Comedy
Here we measure the chief difficulty of the writer who sets out to define, to describe, to limit, or to classify the functions of comedy. How shall we play the interpreter between Dogberry and Tartuffe, between Mirabel and Peisthetairus, between Bob Acres and the Hon. John Worthing How shall we affirm, passing from Moliere to Fletcher, from Aristophanes to Congreve, from Chapman to Terence, that these men were all writers of comedy: that comedy is a fixed form of art to be recognised, defined and separated from all other forms? How shall we make good our right to insist that 7733 F az'tbful Sbepberderr is first cousin of Lyrirtrata that Yke Rival; are on speaking terms with the Menscbmi How shall we tell the reader that comedy, whatever the tongue or fashion of its delivery, is always comedy How shall we encounter his dismay as he passes from the delicate presence of Congreve's Millamant into the company of the Sausage - Seller of Aristo phanes, or of Ben Jonson's Alchemist Comedy.
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