Search results for “[Subject: comedy]”

• Author(s): Ian Wilkie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyThe Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the dec...

• Author(s): Heráclito Cardoso de Oliveira • Publisher: Editions Notre Savoir • Publisher Imprint: Editions Notre Savoir • BISAC: Theater - GeneralCe travail vise � discuter et � r�fl�chir sur la sc�ne th��trale � partir d'une po�tique du corps, ...

• Author(s): Ludvig Holberg • Publisher: Book Jungle • Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle • BISAC: GeneralLudvig Holberg was an 18th century Norwegian writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright. Holberg is considered the founder of moder...

• Author(s): Aristophanes • Publisher: Wentworth Press • Publisher Imprint: Wentworth Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Th...

• Author(s): Elliott Kalan • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HumorThe winner of four Emmys, a Peabody, and two Writers Guild Awards (all of which badly need dusting) explains his pr...

• Author(s): Simon Cavalli • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: ComedyHave You Ever Watch In Awe As Someone Performs Amazing Stand Up Comedy? Ever Thoug...

• Author(s): Drew McCreadie • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: ComedyYOU WILL NEVER BE FUNNY, but you can learn how to do funny things.Canadian Comedy Award winning improvisor Drew McCreadie...

• Author(s): Keith Sidwell • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThis book provides a new interpretation of the nature of Old Comedy and its place at the heart of A...

• Author(s): James V. Morrison • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureComedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 ye...

• Author(s): Stephen Hoover • Publisher: Stephen Hoover • Publisher Imprint: Stephen Hoover • BISAC: ComedyWhy do we laugh? How does comedy work? This book examines the theories from philosophers to scientists on why we need to laugh and how we l...

• Author(s): Otto Ernst Schmidt • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pic...

• Author(s): Lincoln Peirce • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels - HumorousA special Big Nate volume including all of the comics from Big Nate: Welcome To My World...

• Author(s): Graeme Dunphy | Rainer Emig • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Humor

• Author(s): John Moore • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralAre you ready to get your comedy pump on?For mazillions of years, writers of all kin...

• Author(s): Carlo Goldoni • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: European - GeneralThis collection comprises Volumes 7 and 8 of the comedies of Carlo Goldoni, a pivotal figure in Italian theater. Celebrated for his cont...

• Author(s): Athene Seyler • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - General"a work on the art and craft of comedy as important in its own way as works by Stanislavski and Chekhov" - Oxford Theatre Compan...

• Author(s): Kim Wedler • Publisher: Tsl Drama • Publisher Imprint: Tsl Drama • BISAC: GeneralCouples, pairs, occasional duals. Actors go head to head in a series of well-seasoned sketches.

• Author(s): Adam Zucker • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWhat is wit made out of in the comedies of Shakespeare, Jonson, Shirley and their ...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: European - GeneralThis collection, "English Comedy, Volumes 1-2," presents a selection of comedic plays from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Offering ...

• Author(s): Andrew Horton • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ d...

• Author(s): Martin Kari • Publisher: Balboa Press Au • Publisher Imprint: Balboa Press Au • BISAC: ComedyWe all live in a glasshouse of our own, knowing very little about the other glasshouses around us. Let's therefore get out of our glasshouse...

• Author(s): Hans S. Reiss | W. E. Yates | Peter Hutchinson • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: European - GeneralPublic demand for comedy has alwa...

• Author(s): Mel Watkins • Publisher: Chicago Review Press • Publisher Imprint: Chicago Review Press • BISAC: ComedyThis comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit...

• Author(s): Scott Dikkers • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Personal SuccessFind the funny in your writing, speeches, presentations, and everyday conversations Are you ready to elevate your writing, speeches, and conversatio...

• Author(s): John Limon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: ComedyStand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciate...

• Author(s): Jenny Eclair • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group • Publisher Imprint: Little, Brown Book Group • BISAC: Memoirs*Nominated for Best Book at the 2025 Chortle Awards* 'Really funny & engaging. A breeze and a pleasure to read' Kath...

• Author(s): Steve Kaplan • Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions • Publisher Imprint: Michael Wiese Productions • BISAC: ComedyWhile other books give you tips on how to "write funny," this book offers a paradigm shift in understanding the mechani...

• Author(s): Barry Friedman • Publisher: Balkan Press • Publisher Imprint: Balkan Press • BISAC: MemoirsBarry Friedman, a veteran of 30 years on the comedy road, delivers another punchline on standup. Filled with garden-variety kleptomaniacs, lar...

• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Alchemist is considered Jonson’s best and most characteristic comedy. It was first performed in 1610 by King’s Men. Samuel Taylor Coleridg...

• Author(s): Natasha Sukunda • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: ComedyThis funny joke book is packed with hundreds of quick, witty, and hilarious jokes that are sure to make anyone laugh out...

• Author(s): Mad Comedy • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PlacesThe limerick, a form of doggerel poetry that arose from an ancient folk art, has an immediately recog...

• Author(s): Lijun Wang • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsA collection of the best and funniest comedies ever put on scree...

• Author(s): Oliver Double • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis accessible and insightful volume features chapters from diverse contributor...

• Author(s): Ryan Ebelt • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralA volume of the drawings from the Kill Tony podcast done live f...

• Author(s): Immanuel Kim • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Asia - KoreaThis study analyzes North Korean comedy films from the late 1960s to present day. It analyzes their role in the culture of the film i...