Bergson's Theory of the Comic in the Light of English Comedy1920 - 27 páginas |
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absurdity acters amuse his audience artificial comedy Bergson lays Bergson tells Bergson traces BERGSON'S THEORY Bob Acres Brahmins century CHARLES CHARLES W COMEDY BY LOUISE comedy of humors comic characters comic spirit COMMITTEE LOUISE POUND common sense Congreve conventional CRITICISM NUMBER dialogue drama EDITORIAL COMMITTEE LOUISE English comedy Essay on Comedy example expression Falstaff folly French comedy frog gayety Goldsmith Harpagon human weakness judge keep society Lady Teazle LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE laugh laughable laughter of Molière LIGHT OF ENGLISH LOUISE MATHEWSON Love's Labour's Lost lovers Malaprop manners Measure for Measure mechanical Meredith Midsummer Night's Dream mirth moral never nevertheless path of custom Perhaps pity Plato plays pure red nose reminds Restoration comedy ridiculous satire scenes School for Scandal senti sentimental comedy Shakespeare Shaw Sheridan's comedies social gesture sometimes spectator speech Stoops to Conquer STUDIES IN LANGUAGE suggests sympathy theatre tion tragedy Troilus Troilus and Cressida true WALLACE witty
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Página 19 - That's very true indeed, Sir Peter; and, after having married you, I should never pretend to taste again, I allow.
Página 17 - ... unless there be some aspect of his person of which he is unaware, one side of his nature which he overlooks; on that account alone does he make us laugh.1 Profoundly comic sayings are those artless ones in which some vice reveals itself in all its nakedness: how could it thus expose itself were it capable of seeing itself as it is?
Página 16 - ... pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that Folly, instead of being ridiculed. Is commended, and the Comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic. In this manner we are likely to lose one great source of entertainment on the Stage ; for while the Comic Poet is invading the province of the Tragic Muse, he leaves her lovely Sister quite neglected.
Página 7 - So art, whether it be painting or sculpture, poetry or music, has no other object than to brush aside the utilitarian symbols, the conventional and socially accepted generalities, in short, everything that veils reality from us, in order to bring us face to face with reality itself.
Página 4 - The first point to which attention should be called is that the comic does not exist outside the pale of what is strictly human. A landscape may be beautiful, charming and sublime, or insignificant and ugly; it will never be laughable. You may laugh at an animal, but only because you have detected in it some human attitude or expression.
Página 6 - Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
Página 3 - The attitudes, gestures and movements of the human body are laughable in exact proportion as that body reminds us of a mere machine.
Página 22 - Life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels" expresses an idea that lies behind almost every discussion of laughter.
Página 22 - Sarcey tells us that it was not until the middle of the eighteenth* century that a single French comedy presented situations in a^ manner to bring tears to the eyes of the spectator.