Download or read book Broken Laughter written by S. Douglas Olson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text comprises important fragments of Greek comedy, accompanied by a commentary, an introduction discussing the history of comic genre, a series of appendixes on the individual poets, the inscriptional evidence and a translation of the fragments.