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...life’s work to achieve mastery of either one of them,” said Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of classical Greek literature and a longtime colleague of Segal??s. “He did both...
...thorough, traditional education in the Greek and Latin classics. In his day, many students from Boston Latin came to Harvard with anextensive classical background, although, like many of them, Segal wasn’t decided on the classics as his field of study. But his college years developed Segal??s interest in ancient literature...
...marked departure for the author of Love Story, the novel that inspired the movie of the same name (which is a Crimson Key favorite), Erich Segal??s The Death of Comedy traces the development of comedy through two millennia of human history...
...which does not assume prior knowledge of the subject, is as engaging as it is rich with allusion to sources as diverse as Freud, Wordsworth, the musical My Fair Lady and Roberto Benini’s acclaimed movie Life is Beautiful. Whether or not the reader ultimately agrees with Segal??s arguments, The Death of Comedy remains an enjoyable read, a sweeping tome which tackles the topic of comedy with much gusto...