Comedy: a geographic and historical guide

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Introduction Volume I Academic Humor by Paul Schlueter African-American Comedians by Frank J. Miles African-American Humor by John W. Lowe African Film Comedy by Carina Yervasi American Drama Since 1975 by Richard Brucher American Film by Leo Charney American Jewish Humor by James D. Bloom American Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Welsh American Political Cartoons and Comics by Kalman Goldstein Animation by Kirsten Thompson Arthurian Romance by Andrew Welsh Black Comedy by Benjamin Nathan Schachtman British Contemporary Comedy by David Hawkes Canadian Comedy by Gerald Lynch Children's Humor by Kathryn Douglas Commedia dell' Arte by Frances K. Barasch English Comedy, Elizabethan and Jacobean, Naomi Conn Liebler English Comedy, Restoration and Augustan, John Richetti English Comedy, Victorian, by Heather L. Braun Volume II Farce by Norman R. Shapiro French Contemporary Comedy by Alyson Waters French Drama in the 17th Century by Philip Koch German Comedy by Bettina Brandt Greek Comedy by Mary C. English Irish Comedy by James M. Cahalan Irony by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen Italian Comedy by Nina da Vinci Nichols Middle English Comedy by Andrew Welsh Native American Trickster Tales by Arnold Krupat The Philosophy of Humor by Adrian Bardon Queer Comedy by Ken Feil Roman Comedy by Maurice Charney The Romantic Period by William Galperin Satire by Harry Keyishian Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances by Margaret Mikesell Spanish Comedy by Nina Gerassi-Navarro and Raquel Medina-Banon Stand Up Comedy by Lawrence E. Mintz Television Sitcoms by Leo Charney Glossary About the Editor and Authors Index