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The Comic & Its Uses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Extract

I hope we shall not invite reproach for singling out the comic actor from among the various types of actor, and for giving him our special attention. There is a philosophy of the tragic and there is a philosophy of laughter; there are thorough theories about the serious genre and the comic genre: for the purposes of this study, therefore, it would seem perfectly admissible to isolate the actor who makes one laugh. But we have not artificially detached the actor for the sake of analytical dissection: if we say that a comedian plays comic parts, we recognise his use of the comic.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1971 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 Cf. L'Acteur, p. 252.

2 Louis Jouvet, Molière et la comédie classique, p. 193.

3 Louis Jouvet, Molière et la comédie classique, p. 193.

4 The list of the troupe of the Rouen theatre for the 1874-75 season mentions: Comic lover. First Major comic. First character comic. First young comic. Young First comic. Strong second comic. Young comic. Old comic. Comic chaperon.

5 Max Eastman, Plaisir du rire, p. 52.

6 Ibid. p. 52.

7 Ibid. p. 52.

8 Ibid. p. 53.

9 Albert Fratellini, Nous les Fratellini, p. 114.

10 Cf. Roland Kuhn. Phénoménologie du masque à travers le test de Rorschach. Foreword by Gaston Bachelard, p. 12.

11 Cf. Le Physique au théâtre.

12 Cf. André Villiers, La Psychologie du comédien, pp. 115-118.

13 L'Esthétique de la grâce vol. I, p. 33.

14 Cf. Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience, p. 10.