A Critical Bibliography

 

 

Abel, Lionel.  Metatheatre:  A New View of Dramatic Form. New York:  Hill and Wang, 1963.

 

Aristotle.  The Poetics, trans.  Ingram Bywater with introduction by Fredrick Solmsen.  New York:  The Modern Library, 1954.

 

Cook., Albert S.  The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press, 1949.

 

Corrigan, Robert W., ed. Comedy:  Meaning and Form.  San Francisco:  Chandler Publishing Co., 1965.

 

Corrigan, Robert W., ed.  Tragedy:  Vision and Form.  San Francisco:  Chandler Publishing Co., 1965.

 

Dryden, John.  “Essay of Dramatic Poesy.”  Rpt. Selected Works of John Dryden.  Ed.  William Frost.  New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1953.

 

Esslin, Martin.  The Theatre of the Absurd.  Garden City, New York:  Doubleday and Co., 1961.

 

Fergusson, Francis.  The Idea of a Theatre.  Garden City, New York:  Doubleday and Co., 1953.

 

Freud, Sigmund.  The Interpretation of Dreams, trans. A. A. Brill.  New York:  Macmillan Co., 1913.

 

-----------.  Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, ed. and trans. James Strachey.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1960.

 

Fry, Christopher.  “Comedy.”  Adelphi, 27 (November 1950), pp. 27-29.

 

Frye, Northrop.   Anatomy of Criticism:  Four Essays.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1957.

 

Guthke, Karl S.  Modern Tragicomedy:  An Investigation into the Nature of the Genre.  New York:  Random House, 1966.

 

Hanna, Thomas, ed.  The Bergsonian Heritage.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1962.

 

Hartnack, Justus.  Wittgenstein and Modern Philosophy, trans Maurice Cranston.  Garden City, New York:  Doubleday and Co., 1965.

 

Harvey, John.  Anouilh:  A Study in Theatrics.  New Haven and London:  Yale University Press, 1964.

 

Hoy, Cyrus.  The Hyacinth Room:  An Investigation into the Nature of Comedy, Tragedy, and Tragecomedy.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

 

Inoesco, Eugene.  Notes and Counter Notes, trans.  Donald Watson.  New York:  Grove Press, 1964.

 

Jekels, Ludwig.  Selected Papers of Ludwig Jakels, trans. I. Jarosy.  International Universities Press, 1952.

 

Langer, Susanne K.  Feeling and Form.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953.

 

------------. Philosophy in a New Key.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press, 1942.

 

Lauter, Paul, ed. Theories of Comedy.  Garden City, New York:  Doubleday and Co., 1964.

 

Lynch, William F. Christ and Apollo.  New York:  Sheed and Ward, 1960.

 

Magarshack, David.  Chekhov the Dramatist.  New York:  Hill and Wang, 1960.

 

Nevo, Ruth.  “Toward a Theory of Comedy.”  The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 21 (Spring 1963), pp. 327-332.

 

Niebuhr, Reinhold.  Beyond Tragedy.  New York:  Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1955.

 

Pirandello, Luigi.  L’Umorismo.  Milan:  Sacchetti and Co., 1920.

 

Potts, L. J. Comedy. London:  Hutchinson’s University Library, 1950.

 

Rieff, Philip.  Freud:  The Mind of the Moralist.  Garden City, New York:  Doubleday and Co., 1961.

 

Scott, Nathan A., Jr.  “The Bias of Comedy and the Narrow Escape into Faith.”  The Christian Scholar, 44 (Spring 1961), pp. 9-39.

 

Styan, J. L.  The Dark Comedy:  The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy, 2^nd ed.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1968.  (1^st ed. 1962).

 

Sypher, Wylie, ed.  Comedy.  Garden City, New York:  Doubleday and Co., 1956.  (Texts of Meredith’s Essay on Comedy and Bersgon’s Laughter with introduction and concluding essay by Sypher.)

 

Vos, Nelvin.  The Drama of Comedy:  Victim and Victor.  Richmond, Virginia:  John Know Press, 1966.

 

-----------.  For God’s Sake Laugh!  Richmond, Virginia:  John Know Press, 1967.

 

Watts, Harold H.  “The Sense of Regain:  A Theory of Comedy.”  University of Kansas City Review, 13 (Autumn 1946), pp. 19-23.

 

Weitz, Morris.  “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics.”  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.  15 (September 1956).