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Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 169
Authors: Matthew Bevis
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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With a broad scope across the millennia, from high literature to popular culture, between page and stage and screen, this Very Short Introduction considers come
Humour: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Noël Carroll
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-23 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be u
Dante
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Peter Hainsworth
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

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This Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the features that have made him such an important point of reference fo
The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Eric Weitz
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do w
Theatre
Language: en
Pages: 153
Authors: Marvin Carlson
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

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Theatre is one of the longest-standing art forms of modern civilization. Taking a global look at how various forms of theatre - including puppetry, dance, and m