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Kincaid argues that the funny Dickens and the "dark" Dickens are one, and that our response to his humour is no less important is Little Dorrit than in Pickwick.

While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the richest woman in Japan.

Humans have always regarded the ability to laugh and appreciate humor as one of the factors that sets them apart from other species. But investigations into the causes of laughter have led researchers to question this exclusivity, as they have discovered the ape's equivalent of human laughter and even observed that rats can express their own sense of humor. This program reveals that neurologists have traced people's instinct to laugh to a highly evolved...

"Drawing on a wide variety of texts in order to observe the comedic process in action, Glen Cavaliero examines the ways in which irony, satire, celebration, parody, farce and other categories of comedy function withing the confines of a novel."--Jacket

Conversations between Maurice Sendak and Frank Corsaro concerning the production sets and costumes, as well as interpretation, for the production of the Glyndebourne version of "The love for three oranges", a comic opera. Includes Sendaks illustrations for design.