Comic Literature: Dramatic and Non-Dramatic
FAIN: FS-10302-76
University of Rochester (Rochester, NY 14627-0001)
Cyrus H. Hoy (Project Director: January 1976 to present)
To study a large body of comic literature with the aim of determining some of the characteristic qualities of comedy as a mode of representing human experience by examining the relationships of comedy to other literary modes; tragedy, melodrama and farce.