The Dark Comedy. The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy

J. L. Styan

Published by Cambridge at the University Press, London, 1962

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Hardback. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Price clipped. Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not straightforward heroic; the subject-matter seems at some time grisly realistic and at others nearer to pure fantasy; and critics and audience alike seem not to know quite what to make of it all. Mr. Styan sets out to explain and illuminate the nature of this dark, paradoxical comedy. 304 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dark Comedy. The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy
• Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press, London
• Publication Date: 1962
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
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