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Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy Levin, Harry (Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University (Emeritus))
Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy
Levin, Harry (Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University (Emeritus))
Harry Levin--one of America's leading literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors.
224 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 8, 1988 |
| Original release date | 1994 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195048773 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 219 × 145 × 14 mm · 195 g |
| Language | English |