SOURCE: "The Premises of Comedy: Functions of Dramatic Space in an Ancient and Modern Art Form," in Journal of Popular Film and Television, Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter, 1988, pp. 180-90.
In the following essay, Konstan focuses on such workplace situation comedies as Barney Miller and Archie Bunker's Place in a discussion of the function of place in classical Greek New Comedy and the television comedy series.
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