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BIBLIOGRAPHY

E. M. Blistein, Comedy in Action (Durham, N.C., 1964),
biblio. pp. 131-39. A. Cook, The Dark Voyage and the
Golden Mean
(New York, 1949). L. Cooper, An Aristotelian
Theory of Comedy
(New York, 1922), biblio. pp. xv-xxi. F. M.
Cornford, The Origin of Attic Comedy (London, 1914). M.
Eastman, The Enjoyment of Laughter (New York, 1936). E.
Lauter, Theories of Comedy (New York, 1964). A. Nicoll,
The Theory of Drama (New York, 1931), pp. 175-243; sug-
gestions for reading, pp. 245-56. A. Nicoll, Masks, Mimes,
and Miracles
(New York, 1963). E. Olson, The Theory of
Comedy
(Bloomington, Ind., 1968). H. T. E. Perry, Masters
of Dramatic Comedy and their Social Themes
(Cambridge,
Mass., 1939), biblio. pp. 409-17. L. J. Potts, Comedy
(London, 1948), biblio. pp. 168-71.

EDWARD G. BALLARD

[See also Art and Play; Catharsis; Classification of the Arts;
Motif; Satire; Tragic Sense; Wisdom of the Fool.]