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... comedy through only two playwrights whose works have survived . They represent distinctly different expressions of the comic spirit . The " Old Comedy " is that of Aristophanes ; the " New Comedy , " of Menander . Aristophanes , who ...
... comedy through only two playwrights whose works have survived . They represent distinctly different expressions of the comic spirit . The " Old Comedy " is that of Aristophanes ; the " New Comedy , " of Menander . Aristophanes , who ...
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... comedy . Molière was born in Paris in 1622 , the son of Jean Poquelin , one of the official upholsterers to King Louis XIII . It was the consum- ing ambition of Jean Poquelin that Jean Baptiste should follow him in what he regarded as ...
... comedy . Molière was born in Paris in 1622 , the son of Jean Poquelin , one of the official upholsterers to King Louis XIII . It was the consum- ing ambition of Jean Poquelin that Jean Baptiste should follow him in what he regarded as ...
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... comedy as Paris had not seen before . The relative failure of Nicomède was forgotten . Molière had won his second ... comedy , " or the comedy of manners . In English it finds its closest match in some of the comedies of the Restoration ...
... comedy as Paris had not seen before . The relative failure of Nicomède was forgotten . Molière had won his second ... comedy , " or the comedy of manners . In English it finds its closest match in some of the comedies of the Restoration ...
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