A Life in Focus: Peter Cook, giant of British comedy who inspired several generations

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The Independent revisits the life of a notable figure. This week: Peter Cook, from Tuesday 10 January 1995

Still, a satirist is what he was, but only if you use the term for its richest and most complex connotations. Northrop Frye wrote of satire that “it demands fantasy, a content recognised as grotesque, moral judgements , and a militant attitude to experience”. Its distinguishing mark is the “double focus of morality and fantasy”.

 

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