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Tyranny and comedy / Daniel Gerould -- Black humor: to weep with laughing / Mathew Winston -- From Pyrrhonic to Vomedic irony / Morton Gurewitch -- Physical deformity and chivalric laughter in Renaissance England / John J. O'Connor -- Jacobean comedy and the acquisitive grasp / Malcolm Kiniry -- Hegel's theory of comedy / Anne Paolucci -- Smiles and laughter: some neurologic, developmental, and psychodynamic considerations / Herbert J. Levowitz --...

Critical views on Greek comedy, The birds, The clouds, The frogs and Lysistrata.

"During the last thirty years of the twentieth century, John Guare, largely due to the universal appeal of his best-known dramas, The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, has been lauded as one of the most successful American playwrights. However, his plays have been perceived by critics as problematic and paradoxical; as a result, with no books and a paucity of articles written about his theater, Guare has not received the critical...

"Elizabethan drama's richest decade culminated in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Likely written in 1598, the play also stands as one of Shakespeare's last and greatest romantic comedies, free of the darker, more decadent overtones of his other late comedy, Twelfth Night. Rosalind, the ebullient heroine of As You Like It, is largely responsible for the style and spirit of this mature work. Shrewd in intellect and unmatchable in speech, Rosalind nevertheless...

Brings together the texts of Simon's Chapter Two, California Suite, God's Favorite, The Good Doctor, The Sunshine Boys, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Gingerbread Lady, and Little Me.