Romantic Comedy Today: Semi-Tough or Impossible?

Abstract

a widely accepted theory of comedy, to organize the general sense of the subject and to orient particular studies within it. Since Aristotle there has been a theory of tragedy, more or less the same one. (Hegel's and Bradley's theories have different emphases but are compatible with it and relate to their object in a similar way.) But each theorist of comedy has worked in a vacuum. Nevertheless each has set out boldly to do the whole job-as though Aristotle had merely omitted to do it. As bad as the state of affairs itself is that we do

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