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Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide (Two Volume Set) Book

Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide (Two Volume Set)
Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide (Two Volume Set), Comedy is a fundamental part of the human experience. Collecting the work of today's leading scholars, Maurice Charney presents 40 essays on the many forms that comedy has taken throughout history. Ranging from the comic plays of ancient times to Renaissa, Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide (Two Volume Set) has a rating of 4 stars
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  • Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide (Two Volume Set)
  • Written by author Maurice Charney
  • Published by Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, August 2005
  • Comedy is a fundamental part of the human experience. Collecting the work of today's leading scholars, Maurice Charney presents 40 essays on the many forms that comedy has taken throughout history. Ranging from the comic plays of ancient times to Renaissa
  • Comedy has striven to be taken seriously as a genre ever since Aristotle wrote about tragedy, though it comprises more than half of the world's literature. Thus Charney (English, Rutgers U.), the author of books on the history and theory of comedy, introd
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Introduction

Volume I

Academic Humor by Paul Schlueter

African-American Comedians by Frank J. Miles

African-American Humor by John W. Lowe

African Film Comedy by Carina Yervasi

American Drama Since 1975 by Richard Brucher

American Film by Leo Charney

American Jewish Humor by James D. Bloom

American Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Welsh

American Political Cartoons and Comics by Kalman Goldstein

Animation by Kirsten Thompson

Arthurian Romance by Andrew Welsh

Black Comedy by Benjamin Nathan Schachtman

British Contemporary Comedy by David Hawkes

Canadian Comedy by Gerald Lynch

Children's Humor by Kathryn Douglas

Commedia dell' Arte by Frances K. Barasch

English Comedy, Elizabethan and Jacobean, Naomi Conn Liebler

English Comedy, Restoration and Augustan, John Richetti

English Comedy, Victorian, by Heather L. Braun

Volume II

Farce by Norman R. Shapiro

French Contemporary Comedy by Alyson Waters

French Drama in the 17th Century by Philip Koch

German Comedy by Bettina Brandt

Greek Comedy by Mary C. English

Irish Comedy by James M. Cahalan

Irony by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen

Italian Comedy by Nina da Vinci Nichols

Middle English Comedy by Andrew Welsh

Native American Trickster Tales by Arnold Krupat

The Philosophy of Humor by Adrian Bardon

Queer Comedy by Ken Feil

Roman Comedy by Maurice Charney

The Romantic Period by William Galperin

Satire by Harry Keyishian

Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances by Margaret Mikesell

Spanish Comedy by Nina Gerassi-Navarro and Raquel Medina-Banon

Stand Up Comedy by Lawrence E. Mintz

Television Sitcoms by Leo Charney

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