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| | Harvard University Press/The Death of Comedy |
 | | Erich Segal has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and is now a Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. |
 | | Segal shows how the ribaldry of foiled adultery, a staple of Roman comedy, reappears in force on the stages of Restoration England. |
 | | At every turn in Segal's analysis--from Shakespeare to Molière to Shaw--another facet of the comic art emerges, until finally, he argues, "the head conquers and the heart dies": Letting the intellect take the lead, Cocteau, Ionesco, and Beckett smother comedy as we know it. |
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