The humanist comedy:
"For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophica...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought. The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago".. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 266 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780300197518 |
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SCENES
FROM THE COMEDY
Prologue
ι
ACT
Ο Ν Ε
:
Laughter at the Gods in Classical Times
9
ι.
Old Comedy in Aristophanes'Hands
16
2.
Lucretius on the Unholy Nature of Things
32
3.
Laughter Overheard by Cicero
41
4.
Lucian
Laughing Outright
55
ACT TWO: Humanist Games in Christian Times
65
ι.
Erasmus's Praise of Folly
70
2.
Montaigne's
Que sais-je?
88
3.
Hobbes's Braving of the Dark
98
4.
Spinoza's Deification of the Whole Lot
108
5.
Bayle's Send-up of a Comet
123
6.
Hume's Jesting with Natural Religion
139
7.
Whose
Aberglaube? 155
ACT THREE: Laughter at the Pas sing Generations
169
1. New Comedy in the Hands of Plautus and Shakespeare
177
2.
Unfailing Impersonations by
Moliere
200
3.
Adaptation of the Tragicomedy by Novelists
216
4.
Jesus vs. God in Saramago's Novel
230
Notes
249
Index
261
or almost three thousand years, comedy has applied a welcome humanist
perspective to Western religious beliefs and practices. In his sweeping tour of
Western civilization, literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes
the prevalence of this healthy skepticism about religious belief in the history of
our thought and writings. From the Greek comedies of Aristophanes in the fifth
century
ВС
to Praise of Folly by the Dutch humanist Erasmus, through
Molières
satires of French religious hypocrisy, ending with the atheist allegories of the
twentieth-century Nobel Prize-winning novelist
José
Saramago,
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Humanist
Comedy charts the history of humor in Western literatures struggles with religious
institutions and spiritual faith. |
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