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Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy

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Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy

by Harry Levin

About this title: This study concentrates especially on the great comic playwrights from Aristophanes through Shakespeare and Moliere to Shaw and Coward, and also looks at theories of comedy, and great comedians such as Chaplin.

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by Levin, Harry

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Binding: Trade Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Date Published: 1988 ISBN-13: 9780195048773 ISBN: 0195048776

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Date Published: 1988-09-08 ISBN-13: 9780195048773 ISBN: 0195048776

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Date Published: 1988 ISBN-13: 9780195048773 ISBN: 0195048776

Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex) Library Copy. Moderate wear on Cover/Interior Pages. Usual library markings. (W3) Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. read more

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

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ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Date Published: 1987-02-19 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

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Binding: HC Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York Date Published: 1987 1st ptg ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

Description: good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscription FFEP. 214pp. ISBN 0195048563 An original study of the whole world of comedy concentrating on playwrights through the centuries. read more

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, NY Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

Description: Dust Jacket Design By Ben Santora. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition. x, 214pp. Black half-cloth, black paper boards, gilt spine lettering. A brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries from Aristophanes and Plautus to Bernard Shaw and Bertold Brecht and their recent successors. Minor tear to top spine edge o/w a fine, unclipped dust jacket. read more

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A. Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

Description: Ben Santora (Jacket Design) Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 214 pages with index; First printing; Textblock is tight; Boards are black with title in gold; Bright, unfaded pictorial dust-jacket with modest shelf and edge wear including a light nick and some light tanning to a small part of the back cover; We have placed the dust-jacket in a protective, removable, clear mylar cover; .....(The author views the comic repertory as a richly variegated but broadly unified whole ... read more

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York, NY Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0195048563. Cloth, with DJ. DJ price-clipped at front fold bottom, buffing to rear DJ face, else fine.; Octavo. read more

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Binding: Softcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A. Date Published: 1988 ISBN-13: 9780195048773 ISBN: 0195048776

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

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Edition: First edition Binding: HB Publisher: Oxford U. Press, NY Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

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Binding: Softcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, NY Date Published: 1987

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press Date Published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9780195048568 ISBN: 0195048563

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN-13: 9780195048773 ISBN: 0195048776

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