This thesis analyzes how Joan Rivers’ comedy content and style changed during the first 30 years of her career and how these changes impacted Rivers’ presentation of her identity as a Jewish female comedian. This project focuses on Joan Rivers’ career in two sections: her early …
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Laughter, humor, and comedy in ancient philosophy
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"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they we…
Arthurian literature
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The texts analyzed underline the wide dissemination of the Arthurian story in medieval and post-medieval Europe, from Scotland to Italy, while the various analyses of the manifestations of comedy refute the notion of romance as a humourless genre. Indeed, the comic treatment of …
The texts analyzed underline the wide dissemination of the Arthurian story in medieval and post-medieval Europe, from Scotland to Italy, while the various analyses of the manifestations of comedy refute the notion of romance as a humourless genre. Indeed, the comic treatment of …
Fäkalkomik galt lange Zeit als männliche Domäne. Doch inzwischen entwerfen Komikerinnen wie Amy Schumer oder Rachel Bloom ganz eigene Perspektiven und Deutungsrahmen einer weiblichen Fäkalkomik. Unter dem Schlagwort >>Poop Feminism<< unterzieht Gregor Balke die semantischen Kont…
This book, by a well-known Shakespearian actress, is a useful and insightful how-to guide to developing fully-realized characters in Shakespeare's comedies. It includes a dissertation on the difference between tragedy and comedy.
This thesis researches the reception of British television political comedy from 1962 to 2012, exploring the continuities and contrasts in viewers' definitions, interpretations and evaluations of the genre. Television comedy scholarship has privileged the text but this first in-…
This thesis represents the first Cultural Studies analysis of the 1980s entertainment form commonly known as ‘alternative comedy’, which emerged against the backdrop of social, industrial and political unrest. However, the use of the term ‘alternative comedy’ has obscured a dive…
This thesis is an analysis of the performance reception of Aristophanes' 'Frogs' across the English-speaking world; in which I include Britain, North America, Africa and Australasia. It will draw on the growing trend of performance reception as a branch of Classical Reception, a…
This thesis re-examines the role of marriage in the golden age of seventeenth-century French comedy. It reconsiders received wisdom on the subject to challenge acceptance of the final promise of marriage as a dénouement complet to comedy. Through an analysis of the themes of dis…
Lying far outside the canon, Lucian of Samosata was for decades considered a writer of frivolous epideictic, if not an outright plagiarist, cutting and pasting together material from the golden age of Greek literature. And while the second half of the twentieth century witnessed…