The humanist comedy
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The humanist comedy
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The work The humanist comedy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The humanist comedy
- Statement of responsibility
- Alexander Welsh
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought. The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago"--
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- Provided by publisher
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- DLC
- Dewey number
- 809.7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN56.H83
- LC item number
- W45 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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