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An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spiri

George Meredith

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Alceste and Célimène was ultimately understood and applauded.  In all countries the middle class presents the public which, fighting the world, and with a good footing in the fight, knows the world best.  It may be the most selfish, but that is a question leading us into sophistries.  Cultivated men and women, who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.  Molière is their poet.

Of this class in England, a large body, neither Puritan nor Bacchanalian, have a sentimental objection to face the study of the actual world.  They take up disdain of it, when its truths appear humiliating: when the facts are not immediately forced on them, they take up the pride of incredulity.  They live in a hazy atmosphere that they suppose an ideal one.  Humorous writing they will endure, perhaps approve, if it mingles with pathos to shake and elevate the feel. . . Read More

Community Reviews

3.00
- Polak - Jan 04, 2021

Breve ensayo sobre las formas del espíritu cómico, las obras de Moliére, la risa y las desigualdades de sexo en las representaciones cómicas.

5.00
- Jose - Feb 25, 2018

ENSAYO SOBRE LA COMEDIA O EL HUMOR COMO PROGRESO

Nos encontramos ante un hombre de otro tiempo, George Meredith, que formula unas reflexiones agudísimas para la época en que las escribe. Por tanto, el Ensayo sobre la comedia y los usos del espíritu cómico, primorosamente editado por Ediciones del Sub

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