{"product_id":"alan-ayckbourns-seasons-greetings-in-the-comic-tradition-von-oliver-m-a-baum","title":"Alan Ayckbourn's \"Season's Greetings\" in the Comic Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Marburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: SE: \"British Drama from the 1950s to the Present\", language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with the placement of Alan Ayckbourn¿s Season¿s Greetings in the English comic tradition. Therefore, I will first put Ayckbourn¿s play within the historical context of the new drama, and subsequently define the term ¿comedy¿. Then, I will prove my thesis that Season¿s Greetings matches both conventionality and innovation with regard to comedy. In this way, I will also investigate in how far Season¿s Greetings as comedy contains both farcical and tragic elements, and suits other subgenres of comedy, too. Likewise, I will analyse how Ayckbourn makes use of the comic in Season¿s Greetings, and discuss if he continues the comic tradition with a new emphasis with regard to the assumption that he, like Shakespeare, writes plays for the spectator rather than the reader, among other things. In the conclusion, I will recap and reconsider the principal theses of my term paper and give my own diagnosis about Ayckbourn¿s drama. My thesis matters in so far that ¿the continuing life that [¿] comedies have [¿] justifies our study of the genre [¿]¿.  Besides, English comedy has ¿the longest, most continuous generic tradition in Western literature¿,  in which its tendency to the meta-theatrical achieves an awareness of the comic tradition onstage (cf. Leggatt 2). Anyway, it is meaningful that serious issues of everyday life are treated in a comic way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640301621\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAn Investigation of Ayckbourn's Use of the Comic in the Historical Context of the New Drama\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640301621","offer_id":39524070588509,"sku":"9783640301621","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/64fa35f0-ff59-4ecc-8338-3fc0f3182910.jpg?v=1777613841","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/alan-ayckbourns-seasons-greetings-in-the-comic-tradition-von-oliver-m-a-baum","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}