Eight Great Comedies Author:Sylvan Barnet (Editor), Morton Berman (Editor), William Burto (Editor) A Panorama of Comedy--Here for the first time...are the complete texts of eight of the world's greatest plays, masterful examples of the comic view of life in drama. This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli's "Mandragola"; the poignant, searching wit of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"; the ironic social comment ... more »of Shaw's "Arms and the Man"...and a new translation of Moliere's satire, "The Miser," which the editors have prepared especially for this book.
Accompanied by provocative essays which define and explore the spirit, the structure, and the meaning of comedy, this unique volume is an ideal companion to the editors' already published collection, Eight Great Tragedies.« less