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Comedy Structure

Comedy Structure is a narrative framework that belongs to the class of story structures, distinguished by its systematic organization of plot elements—such as incongruity, reversal, and resolution—specifically designed to generate humor and evoke amusement through the depiction of social, situational, or character-based absurdities within a coherent dramatic arc.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Monuments Illustrating New Comedy

Suzanne Young, T. B. L. Webster, Claireve Grandjouan · The American Journal of Philology · 1963 · 106 citations

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The Comic Fragments in their Relation to the Structure of Old Attic Comedy

Mervyn Whittaker · The Classical Quarterly · 1935 · 82 citations

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Comedy among the Modernists: P. G. Wodehouse and the Anachronism of Comic Form

Laura G. Mooneyham · Twentieth Century Literature · 1994 · 57 citations

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The borders of humorous intent – The case of TV comedies

Alexander Brock · Journal of Pragmatics · 2016 · 56 citations

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Entrances, exits, and the structure of Aristophanic comedy

Joe Park Poe · 1999 · 42 citations

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Authors

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  1. LG
    Laura G. Mooneyham

    1 publications · 57 citations

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  2. MC
    M. C. Bradbrook

    University of Toronto, Canada

    1 publications · 38 citations

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  3. MJ
    Murodulla Jurayev

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  4. JR
    Jonathan Rée

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  5. BH
    B. Henderson

    University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 32 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

    Halle, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

  2. University of Turku

    Turku, Finland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  3. Northern Arizona University

    Flagstaff, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  4. Washington Center

    Washington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  5. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 publications

    21 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 80 citations

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  2. The American Journal of Philology

    AJP · 2 publications · 142 citations

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  3. New Theatre Quarterly

    NTQ · 1 publications · 22 citations

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  4. Theoretical & Applied Science

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  5. New Literary History

    NLH · 1 publications · 16 citations

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