FC -- Reader in Comedy -- Also Available from Bloomsbury Publishing: -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- 1 Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Introduction -- Texts -- Ancient Views of Comedy -- 1. Plato, Philebus (360 BCE) 'The Basis of Comedy is Malice' -- 2. Aristotle on the Origins and Function of Comedy -- a. Poetics (350 BCE) -- b. 'On the Qualities of Character that are Moderate' from Nicomachean Ethics (350 BCE) -- c. Tractatus Coislinianus (350 BCE) -- 3. Horace, 'Remarks on Comedy' from Epistles, Satires (40-10 or 9 BCE) -- 4. Quintilian, Institutio oratoria (CE 95) -- 5. Evanthius, 'On Drama' (c. CE 350) -- 6. Donatus, 'On Comedy' (c. CE 350) -- Medieval Views of Comedy -- 7. Hrotsvita of Gandersheim, 'Prologue to the Comedies' (c. CE 935-972) -- 8. Dante Alighieri, De Vulgari Eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) (1302-1305) -- 9. John of Garland, Dante Alighieri, John Lydgate, 'Definitions of Comedy' -- a. John of Garland, On the arts of prose, meter and rhythm (1234) -- b. Dante Alighieri, Letter to Can Grande della Scala (1319) -- c. John Lydgate, Troy Book (1513) -- 10. John of Salisbury, Honorius of Autun, Liutprand of Cremona, 'Attitudes to the Comic Theater' -- a. John of Salisbury, Policraticus (1159) -- b. Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium (1098) -- c. Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis (949) -- 2 The Renaissance -- Introduction -- Texts -- 1. Erasmus, Collected Works of Erasmus (1512) -- 2. Gian Giorgio Trissino, 'Division VI: Comedy', from Poetica (1529) -- 3. Sir Thomas Elyot, 'XII: The second and third decay of learning' from The boke named the Gouernour / Deuised by Thomas Elyot knight (1531) -- 4. Nicholas Udall, Prologue to Ralph Roister Doister (1538).
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