A cultural history of comedy /
How has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it tell us about how society has changed? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contribu...
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. In antiquity / edited by Michael Ewans
- v. 2. In the Middle Ages / edited by Martha Bayless
- v. 3. In the early modern age / edited by Andrew McConnell Stott
- v. 4. In the Age of Enlightenment / edited by Elizabeth Kraft
- v. 5. In the age of empire / edited by Matthew Kaiser
- v. 6. In the modern age / edited by Louise Peacock.