First published in 1939, the original blurb begins: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter, yet laughter is only what we do about comedy. W

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In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the

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