AN

RISTOTELIAN THEORY OF COMEDY

WITH AN ADAPTATION OF THE POETICS
AND A TRANSLATION OF THE

'TRACTATUS COISLINIANUS '

BY

LANE COOPER

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

English-Curr. Wahr 11-24-31 309407.2

The expense of publishing this volume was in part borne by a grant from the Heckscher Foundation for the Advancement of Research, established by August Heckscher at Cornell University.

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EDWARD KENNARD RAND

PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY