Repository | Book | Chapter
(2014) Comedy, seriously, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The epilogue is the "catastrophe" of comedy. A seemingly oxymoronic catastrophic good ending is a most important defining characteristic of comedy, resting on the principle "all's well that ends well," which was formulated by New Comedy long before Shakespeare. We need to clarify, therefore, the meaning of good and ending.
Publication details
Full citation:
Nikulin, D. (2014). The catastrophe of the good ending, in Comedy, seriously, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 93-110.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.