Search results for “[Subject: comedy]”

• 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): Kristen Anderson Wagner • Publisher: Wayne State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Wayne State University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFor many people the term "silent comedy" conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy The Ritz Brothers were a popular comedy trio in vaudeville, nightclubs, movies and television for more than...

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

• Author(s): J. Ahluwalia • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureRestoration Comedy has been attacked from different quarters for its immorality and profaneness. Eighteenth Century Comedy is very much the...

• 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): Maggie Hennefeld • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWomen explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists pla...

• 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): 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): 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): W. Moseley Kerby • 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...

• Author(s): Rosie White • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Board GamesCan comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'fun...

• 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): 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 ...

• 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): Joanna Baillie • Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions • Publisher Imprint: British Library, Historical Print Editions • BISAC: GeneralTitle: A Series of Plays: in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger pass...

• Author(s): Jerry Seinfeld • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsThe first book in twenty-five years from "one of our great comic minds" (The Washington Post) features ...

• Author(s): Leah Dennison • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: JournalismDoctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Communications - Journalism, Journalism Professions, grade: 2.1, Bournemouth ...

• Author(s): Morris | Julie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryQuestioning society and one's place in it is a common theme in both comedy and so...

• Author(s): Evgeny Dobrenko | Natalia Jonsson-Skradol • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralStalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (...

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

• Author(s): Mad Comedy • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language ArtsThere are dirty jokes, and then there are jokes so depraved, so awful, so disturbed that even th...

• Author(s): Jennifer Panek • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic the...

• Author(s): Henri Bergson • Publisher: Shs Editions • Publisher Imprint: Shs Editions • BISAC: ClassicsNous réunissons en un volume trois articles sur Le Rire (ou plutôt sur le rire spécialement provoqué par le comique) que nous avons publiés ré...

• Author(s): Ervin Malakaj | Alena E. Lyons • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: DramaDespite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concent...

• Author(s): James Melville Janson • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralThe Encyclopedia of Comedy by James Melville Janson is a comprehensive guide to the world of humor, designed for profes...

• Author(s): Indira Ghose • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural hi...

• Author(s): Robert Westwood | Carl Rhodes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Organizational BehaviorAccessible and amusing in style, Humour, Work and Organization explores the critical, subversive and ambivalent chara...

• Author(s): Aparna Gollapudi • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralIn the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist em...

• Author(s): Sean Shah • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: GeneralMastering Comedy: Harnessing Humor, Jokes, Kidding, Wordplay, Puns, Lightheartedness by Nik Shah is the definitive guide to u...