Contents: The status of comedy -- Psychological theories of comedy -- The classical world -- 'Comic relief' -- 'Comical-satire' and 'Tragi-comedy' -- The ritual of comedy -- Certain relationships of comedy -- The Aristophanic and Shakespearian traditions -- Conclusion: The metaphysics of comedy
(1. publ.) (London:) Methuen (1972). X, 92 S. (the critical idiom. 21.)