Titlebook: Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière; The Comic Contract Nicholas Grene Book 1980 Nicholas Grene 1980 contract.humour.William Shakespeare.British a

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Follies and Crimes,on of comedy ‘to sport with human follies not with crimes’. It is a definition which still influences the general idea of comedy, which, most people would feel, should be limited in the seriousness of its concerns, unless it is self-consciously ‘black comedy’. What then ofjonson’s own play .: fraud,

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Conflicting Contracts,e mechanical, the rigid, and the systematic, on the one hand, and the organic, the flexible, the accidental, on the other. This central concept is attractive in that it seems to comprehend a very wide range of different comic patterns, and can be interpreted at a number of different levels. Those, f

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Conclusion,ough several literary critics have argued against this approach, insisting that we ought to be concerned with the artistic structure of comedy as of any other genre rather than merely its comic effects,. there continues to be an expectation that any general idea of comedy should explain why we laugh

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