Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Building Blocks of Narrative -- Chapter 2 Will Versus Fate: Greek Tragedy and the Fundamentals -- Unity of Time -- Unity of Place -- Unity of...
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Building Blocks of Narrative -- Chapter 2 Will Versus Fate: Greek Tragedy and the Fundamentals -- Unity of Time -- Unity of Place -- Unity of Action -- Checklist -- Chapter 3 Let's See Blood: Roman Tragedy and Quentin Tarantino -- Checklist -- Chapter 4 Revenge is Sweet: Elizabethan Tragedy -- Checklist -- Chapter 5 Mashing It Up: Desperate Housewives, Jacobean Tragedy and Buffy -- Checklist -- Chapter 6 The Plate of Sardines: New Greek Comedy, Menander and Frasier -- Dramatic Irony -- The Concealment -- Cross-purpose and Misunderstanding -- Genuine Surprise: The Reveal or Turnaround -- Misfortune -- Time Limits -- Convergence of the Incompatible -- Checklist -- Chapter 7 Archetype or Stereotype? Plautus, Comedy of Contradictions and The Sketch Show -- Checklist -- Chapter 8 Happily Ever After: Romantic Comedy from Shakespeare to Sleepless in Seattle -- Checklist -- Chapter 9 Minding Our Manners: The Country Wife and Mean Girls -- Checklist -- Chapter 10 Nothing Ever Happens: Chekhov and the Contemporary Independent Comedy -- Checklist -- Chapter 11 Arrivals and Departures: The Chivalric Romance and the Pastoral -- Checklist -- A Final Thought -- APPENDIX 1 Miscellaneous Genres and Hybrids -- Expressionism -- The Horror Film -- Absurdism -- Hyper-Realism -- The Gangster Film or Drama of Succession -- The Thriller -- The Rites of Passage Story -- The Superhero Story -- APPENDIX 2 Other Theories and Other Approaches -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.
