Eight Great Comedies

Contains

Original title

Eight Great Comedies

Original publication date

1958

People/Characters

Strepsiades; Pheidippides; Strepsiades' wife; Socrates (c. 470–399 BC); The Clouds; Cleon (show all 149); Right; Wrong; Chaerephon; Dionysus; Poseidon; Trophonius; Artemis; Heracles; Hephaestus; Thales of Miletus; Prodicus; Herodotus; Diagoras; Coisura; Colias; Aphrodite; Athamas; Cecrops; Typhoeus; Electra; Memnon; Sarpedon; Telephus; Zeus Polieus; Iapetus; Peleus; Solon; Megacles; Chaerephon; Leogoras; Pericles; Hieronymus; Xenophantus; Simon; Cleonymus; Cleisthenes; Theorus; Hyperbolus; Sostrate; Philoxenus; Amynias; Melesias; Pandeletus; Hippocrates; Antimachus; Eupolis; Hermippus; Stesichorus; Phrynis; Ceceides; Homer; Euripides; Carcinus; Simonides; Aeschylus; Callimaco; Lucrezia; Nicia; Father Timeteo; Ligurio; Viola; Orsino; Olivia; Sebastian; Maria; Toby Belch; Andrew Aguecheek; Malvolio; Feste; Fabian; Antonio; Captain; First Officer; Second Officer; Valentine; Curio; Priest; Servant; Cesario; Harpagon; Cléante; Valère; Signior Anselme; Master Simon; Master Jacques; La Flèche; Brindavoine; La Merluche; Élise; Mariane; Frosine; Mistress Claude; Mr. Peachum; Lockit; Macheath; Filch; Jemmy Twitcher; Crook-Finger'd Jack; Wat Dreary; Robin of Bagshot; Nimming Ned; Harry Padington; Matt of the Mint; Ben Budge; Beggar; Player; Mrs. Peachum; Polly Peachum; Lucy Lockit; Diana Trapes; Mrs. Coaxer; Dolly Trull; Mrs. Vixen; Betty Doxy; Jenny Diver; Mrs. Slammekin; Sukey Tawdrey; Molly Brazen; John Worthing; Algernon "Algy" Moncrieff; Augusta Fairfax; Gwendolen Fairfax; Cecily Cardew; Laetitia Prism; Frederick Chasuble; Lane; Merriman; Gribsby; Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov; Yelena Andreyevna Serebryakov; Sonya Alexandrovna Serebryakov; Maria Vasilyevna Voynitsky; Ivan Petrovitch Voynitsky; Mikhail Lvovich Astrov; Ilya Ilych Telegin; Marina; Raina; Sergius Saranoff; Bluntschli; Louka; Nicola; Major Petkoff; Mrs. Petkoff

Important places

Athens, Greece; The Thinkery; Cicynna; Sphettus; Pylos; Attica, Greece (show all 37); Euboia; Byzantium; Nile River, Egypt; Maiotis; Mimas; Parnes; Thurioi; Sounion; Theatre of Dionysus; The cave of Trophonius; Cynthia; Ephesus; Parnassus; Delphi, Greece; Thessaly; Marathon; the Academy (Athens, Greece); Baths of Heracles; Egypt; Miletus; Ceos; Halicarnassus; Persia; Corinth, Greece; Melos; Anaphlystus; Sounion; Boeotia; Mysia; Italy; Illyria

Important events

Battle of Sphacteria; Panathenaia; Kronia; Diasia; Dipolieia; Tritogeneia (show all 7); Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)

Related movies

The Beggar's Opera (1953 | IMDb); Uncle Vanya (1970 | IMDb); Vanya on 42nd Street (1994 | IMDb); Country Life (1994 | IMDb); August (1996 | IMDb); La mandragola (1965 | IMDb) (show all 17); The Mandrake Root (2008 | IMDb); Twelfth Night (1910 | IMDb); Just One of the Guys (1985 | IMDb); Twelfth Night (1986 | IMDb); Twelfth Night (1996 | IMDb); She's the Man (2006 | IMDb); The Miser (1980 | IMDb); L'avaro (1990 | IMDb); The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 | IMDb); The Importance of Being Earnest (1992 | IMDb); The Importance of Being Earnest (2002 | IMDb)

First words

"A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter," writes the author of Ecclesiasticus, "but a wise man doth scarce smile a little."

--Introduction

Blurbers

Cargill, Oscar

Disambiguation notice

Includes the critical essays: "On the Comic Spirit," by G. K. Chesterton; "Comedy," by Bonamy Dobrée; "The Comic Rhythm," by Susanne K. Langer; and "The Structure of Comedy," by Northrop Frye.