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This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy ranging from antiquity to the present divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory highlighting the relationships between comedy politics economics philosophy religion and other arts and genres. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to the twenty first century in which special attention has been paid to writings since the start of the twentieth century.Reader in Comedy is arranged in five sections each featuring an introduction providing concise and informed historical and theoretical frameworks for the texts from the period:* Antiquity and the Middle Ages* The Renaissance* Restoration to Romanticism* The Industrial Age* The Twentieth and Early Twenty First CenturiesAmong the many authors included are: ......read more