The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

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Three Farces and a Comedy. by Travers, Ben

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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2. by Alighieri, Dante

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The Coen Brothers and the Comedy of Democracy by MacDonald, Sara

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The Servant in German Enlightenment Comedy. by Scott-Prelorentzos, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations; I: The Ancestors of Enlightenment Comedy: Weise, Reuter, Henrici, and König; II: The Saxon Satiric Comedy: Theory and Practice; III: The Comedy of Feeling: Schlegel, Gellert, and Cronegk; IV: Lessing's Early Comedies; V: Minna von Barnhelm and Die Matrone von Ephesus; VI: The Decline of Enlightenment Comedy: Weiße, Iffland, and Hippel; Translations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.…”
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The Political Vision of the ""Divine Comedy"" by Ferrante, Joan M.

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Popular Film and Television Comedy. by Neale, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Definitions, genres, and forms; 2 Comedy and narrative; 3 Gags, jokes, wisecracks, and comic events; 4 Laughter, humour, and the comic; 5 Verisimilitude; 6 Hollywood, comedy, and The Case of Silent Slapstick; 7 The comedy of the sexes; 8 Comedy, television, and variety; 9 Broadcast comedy and sit-com; Notes and References; Index.…”
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The Comedy of Errors (Propeller Shakespeare). by Shakespeare, William

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Cast and Production Team; Edward Hall on Propeller; Farce and Humanity: The Comedy of Errors; Designing: The Comedy of Errors; Music in: The Comedy of Errors; This Edition; The Comedy of Errors; Scene One; Scene Two; Scene Three; Scene Four; Scene Five; Scene Six; Scene Seven; Scene Eight; Scene Nine; Scene Ten; Scene Eleven.…”
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The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. by Marshall, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Experience of Roman Comedy; Opportunities for Performance; The Business of Comedy; Performance Spaces; Set; Costume; Stage Properties; Audience; Chapter 2 Actors and Roles; The Grex Economy; Doubling and the Size of Plautus' Troupe; Star Parts; Terence; Chapter 3 Masks; Greek Masks and the Roman Stage; The Problem of Plautus' Pimps; Individualised Comic Masks; Chapter 4 Stage Action; Focus; Pace; Tone; Routines; Chapter 5 Music and Metre; Musical structure in Plautus.…”
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Comedy of sir william davenant. by Collins, Howard Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Career, Literary and Otherwise; II. Comedy in the Seventeenth Century; III. Davenant's Comedies; The Wits; News from Plymouth; The Playhouse to be Let; IV. …”
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Rhetoric, comedy, and the violence of language in Aristophanes' Clouds / by O'Regan, Daphne Elizabeth

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The laugh makers : stand-up comedy as art, business and life-style / by Stebbins, Robert A., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 An Art Is Born -- 2 Stand-up Comedy Comes to Canada -- 3 Comedy Club Comedy -- 4 So You Think You're Funny -- 5 Becoming a Comic -- 6 The Road -- 7 The Comedy Business -- Appendix: Interview Guide for Professional Comics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y…”
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The myth of deliverance : reflections on Shakespeare's problem comedies / by Frye, Northrop

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Apuleius and drama : the ass on stage by May, Regine, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Knowledge of drama and archaism in the second century -- Drama philosophy, and rhetoric : Apuleius' minor works -- Courtroom drama : Apuleius' Apologia -- The texture of the metamorphoses -- The drama of Aristomenes and Socrates -- A parasite in a comic household -- The Risus Festival : laughing at laughter -- Cupid and Psyche : a divine comedy -- Charite : how comedies do not end -- 'Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor plautus too light' : Metamorphoses, book -- The end : Isis : Dea ex machina? …”
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The illustrated afterlife of Terence's comedies (800-1200) / by Radden Keefe, Beatrice

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100 essential silent film comedies / by Roots, James, 1955-

Subjects: “…Comedy films Catalogs.…”
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Under the sky of Seoul

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Sunday morning. You're killing me!

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Sunday morning. What's so funny?

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Actor's notes. Acting in comedy

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This is kyogen

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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition : cultural contexts in Monty Python

Subjects: “…Monty Python (Comedy troupe)…”
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Beyond a common joy : an introduction to Shakespearean comedy / by Olson, Paul A.

Table of Contents: “…On historical understandings of Shakespeare's works -- Shakespeare and the invention of grand comic form -- Shakespearean comedic myths -- Biblical story and festival enter Shakespearean comedy -- Empire and conquest in the comedies -- Measure for measure as form, myth, and Scripture.…”
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1. by Alighieri, Dante

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No Laughing Matter : Studies in Athenian Comedy. by Marshall, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…Pursuing Nemesis: Cratinus and Mythological Comedy -- 2. A World without Slaves: Crates' Thêria -- 3. …”
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, 3. by Durling, Robert

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Behind the Laughs : Community and Inequality in Comedy. by Jeffries, Michael P.

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Divine comedy of dante alighieri : purgatorio. by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

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Measure for measure

Table of Contents: “…48 Measure for Measure as ''a moral experiment'', 190349 Miscellaneous comments, 1904; 50 A critical introduction, 1905; 51 An ''unclassifiable play'' with a ''half satirical title'', 1905; 52 ''The limits of comedy ... sorely strained'', 1906; 53 Measure for Measure and ''the philosophy of morals'', 1906; 54 On the ''inconsistency in the character of Angelo'', 1907; 55 Shakespeare''s representation of ''a weak world'', 1907; 56 A play dramatizing ''the central truth of Christian morality'', 1907; 57 A play better read than acted, 1907; 58 Duke Vincentio as Shakespeare''s alter ego, 1909.…”
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Company : a musical comedy / by Sondheim, Stephen, Furth, George, 1932-2008

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Divine comedies for the new millennium : recent Dante translations in America and the Netherlands /

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Icons of African American comedy / by Tafoya, Eddie

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Comedy and the feminine middlebrow novel : Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor / by Brown, Erica, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Middlebrow and Comedy: Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim's Cultural and Literary Context; 2 A Comedic 'Response' to War? …”
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Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire /

Table of Contents: “…Ignorance and the reception of comedy in antiquity /…”
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The Aristophanic comedies of Ben Jonson : a comparative study of Jonson and Aristophanes. by Gum, Coburn

Table of Contents: “…Aristophanic Satire and Didacticism in Jonson's Comedy; VI. Personal Satire in Aristophanes and Jonson; VII. …”
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Names as metaphors in Shakespeare's comedies / by Smith, Grant W., 1937-

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A companion to film comedy /

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Shakespeare's double-dealing comedies : deciphering the "problem plays" / by Stagman, Myron

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Comedies.…”
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High Treason and Low Comedy by O'Keeffe, Robert T.

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The sad comedy of Èlʹdar Riazanov : an introduction to Russia's most popular filmaker / by MacFadyen, David, 1964-

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