Noises off: Is comedy more true to life than tragedy? by Matt Trueman

A critic's claim that comedy is more believable than tragedy stirs strong feelings " and is British theatre too naturalistic?Tragedy first, then farce, says Slavoj Zizek (adapting Marx). Not for American critic Terry Teachout, who, in a recent article for the Wall Street Journal, ranked the comic above the cathartic on the basis that the former "is truer to life". Perhaps surprisingly, that threw the cat among the pi…

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