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Goldsmith knew instinctively that brevity is the soul of comic writing : prolong a jest and it grows insipid . In both his major comedies scenes and encounters are kept effectively short , worked up to a comic climax and then swiftly ...
Goldsmith knew instinctively that brevity is the soul of comic writing : prolong a jest and it grows insipid . In both his major comedies scenes and encounters are kept effectively short , worked up to a comic climax and then swiftly ...
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The essay attempts to dislodge , by argument and ridicule , a comic mode that is admitted to be modish , and to gain a fair hearing for a more traditional , a purer kind of comedy . “ Which deserves the preference : the weeping ...
The essay attempts to dislodge , by argument and ridicule , a comic mode that is admitted to be modish , and to gain a fair hearing for a more traditional , a purer kind of comedy . “ Which deserves the preference : the weeping ...
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Kate's is a superb role for a virtuoso comic actress . As barmaid she is neatly disingenuous about the nectar that Marlow would like to taste on her lips ( “ that's a liquor there's no call for in these parts — French , I suppose " ) ...
Kate's is a superb role for a virtuoso comic actress . As barmaid she is neatly disingenuous about the nectar that Marlow would like to taste on her lips ( “ that's a liquor there's no call for in these parts — French , I suppose " ) ...
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| Title | Oliver Goldsmith Revisited Issue 487 of Twayne's English authors series |
| Authors | Former Chair of English Peter Dixon, Peter Dixon |
| Contributor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Twayne Publishers, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0805770089, 9780805770087 |
| Length | 157 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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