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• Author(s): Andrew Stott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Books & ReadingThis new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as...

• Author(s): Trevor Jensen • Publisher: Trevor Jensen • Publisher Imprint: Trevor Jensen • BISAC: Romance - Workplace

• Author(s): Mirco Steder • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: GeneralBachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Christian-A...

• Author(s): Trav Trav S. D. | Austin Pendleton • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - Genres - ComedyThe Marx Brothers are widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest comedy team, a tight knit perfor...

• Author(s): Robert Orben • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) • Publisher Imprint: Crown Publishing Group (NY) • BISAC: American - GeneralA Bonanza of Short, Sharp, Topical Jokes for Speakers, Toastmasters, Performers, and Communicators

• Author(s): Sam Friedman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralComedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, ...

• Author(s): Beaumont and Fletcher • Publisher: Outlook Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Outlook Verlag • BISAC: LiteraryReproduction of the original: The Loyal Subject, A Tragi-Comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher

• Author(s): Naomi Scott • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalIn ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and...

• Author(s): Graeme Harper • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: GeneralDrawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and f...

• Author(s): Henri Bergson • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralLaughter An Essay on The Meaning of the Comic By Henri Bergson Bergson begins to ...

• Author(s): Alison Wilde • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialComedy and humour have frequently played a key role in disabled people's lives, for better or for worse. Comedy has also ...

• Author(s): David Farley-Hills • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - General

• Author(s): Alan Bilton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a f...

• Author(s): Conrad Hyers • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralIs comedy an inconsequential part of life, useful primarily for relaxation and escape? Conrad...

• Author(s): D. Nikulin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Mind & BodyComedy, Seriously provides a philosophical interpretation of comedy and argues that comedy displays a particular kind of rationality tha...

• Author(s): Alfie Bown • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesNot so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-ta...

• Author(s): Cynthia Willett • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyComedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools f...

• Author(s): Jonathan Gray | Jeffrey P. Jones | Ethan Thompson • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismA fascinating look into what happens when comedy bec...

• Author(s): Jonathan Lyons • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: DigitalWhile comedy writers are responsible for creating clever scripts, comedic animators have a much mor...

• Author(s): Albert Cook • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: Form - ParodiesProfessor Cook develops his philosophical exploration of comedy from the ideas of the probable and the wonder...

• Author(s): George Meredith • Publisher: Outlook Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Outlook Verlag • BISAC: Literary

• Author(s): Leger Grindon • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first...

• Author(s): Andrew McConnell Stott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Rout India • Subject: English LiteratureWhat is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques...

• Author(s): David Marc • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: ComedyComic Visions, Second Edition is an update of the most influential critical history of American television comedy. *Most comprehensive socia...

• Author(s): Samuel Johnson • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we k...

• Author(s): Harold N. Levitt • Publisher: iUniverse • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse • BISAC: American - GeneralThese five comedies were selected from the playwright's oeuvre of 30 full-length plays. Performances of any of these five plays are sub...

• Author(s): Heráclito Cardoso de Oliveira • Publisher: Edizioni Sapienza • Publisher Imprint: Edizioni Sapienza • BISAC: Theater - GeneralQuesto lavoro cerca di discutere e riflettere sulla scena teatrale a partire da una poetica del corpo, basa...

• Author(s): Graham Sessions • Publisher: Blurb • Publisher Imprint: Blurb • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Nigel Mather • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCritically explores the interactions of comedy and drama within a group of popular and infl...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 a...

• Author(s): John Morreall • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionExplicates the worldviews of comedy and tragedy, and analyzes world religions, finding...

• Author(s): Patrick McGee • Publisher: Resource Publications (CA) • Publisher Imprint: Resource Publications (CA) • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousComedy is a philosophical poem for the twenty-first century inspired by Dante's Commedia....

• Author(s): William Shakespeare | R.A. Foakes • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Arden Shak • Subject: English LiteratureThe Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative sc...

• Author(s): M. S. Silk • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: GeneralIn this book Professor Silk presents a radically new critical study of Aristophanes. Through an exploration of Aristophanes' comic poetry, informed by...

• Author(s): Ruth R. Wisse • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: HumorWhy the genius of Jewish humor runs risks as well as rewards Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to ...