Comedy
Subtitle: a geographic and historical guide
By: edited by Maurice Charney.
Contributors: Charney, Maurice.
Publisher: Praeger; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 663
Subjects: Wit and humor -- History and criticism.; Comedy -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Academic humor / Paul Schlueter; title: African-American comedians / Frank J. Miles; title: African-American humor / John W. Lowe; title: African film comedy / Carina Yervasi; title: American drama since 1975 / Richard Brucher; title: American film / Leo Charney; title: American Jewish humor / James D. Bloom; title: American literature in the nineteenth century / Susan Welsh; title: American political cartoons and comics / Kalman Goldstein; title: Animation / Kirsten Thompson; title: Arthurian romance / Andrew Welsh; title: Black comedy / Benjamin Nathan Schachtman; title: British contemporary comedy / David Hawkes; title: Canadian comedy / Gerald Lynch; title: Children's humor / Kathryn Douglas; title: Commedia dell' arte / Frances K. Barasch; title: English comedy, elizabethan and jacobean / Naomi Conn Liebler; title: English comedy, restoration and augustan / John Richetti; title: English comedy, victorian / Heather L. Braun; title: Farce / Norman R. Shapiro; title: French contemporary comedy / Alyson Waters; title: French drama in the 17th century / Philip Koch; title: German comedy / Bettina Brandt; title: Greek comedy / Mary C. English; title: Irish comedy / James M. Cahalan; title: Irony / Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen; title: Italian comedy / Nina da Vinci Nichols; title: Middle English comedy, andrew welsh; title: Native American trickster tales / Arnold Krupat; title: The philosophy of humor / Adrian Bardon; title: Queer comedy / Ken Feil; title: Roman comedy / Maurice Charney; title: The romantic period / William Galperin; title: Satire / Harry Keyishian; title: Shakespeare's comedies and romances / Margaret Mikesell; title: Spanish comedy / Nina Gerassi-Navarro and Raquel Medina-Banon; title: Stand up comedy / Lawrence E. Mintz; title: Television sitcoms / Leo Charney.