Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière, the comic contract
The relation of the comedian to his audience through the comparison of individual works by the three comic playwrights of the seventeenth century
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvii, 246 ; 23 cm
9780389200932, 038920093X
7739116
The comic contract
The triumph of nature
Comic controllers
Quacks and conmen
The language of courtship
Monstrous regiment
Follies and crimes
Two plays in search of an audience
Conflicting contracts