- The Latin dedication at the beginning, "Helenae Uxori" is to Northrop's wife, Helen.
- Bergson's Laughter may provide a complementary view on comedy.
- The book evolved out of an introduction to Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "the introduction to Spenser became an introduction to the theory of allegory" Frye allowed (p. vii).
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