History of Comedy
Resources
Introduction
Introduction to Comedy
The Nature of Humor
Characteristics of Satire
Aristophanes The Clouds Background
Renaissance
Twelth Night Varities of Love and Characterization
The Elizabethean Theatre Playhouse
Volpone Issues and Considerations
Costumes and Volpone
Early Modern
Moliere's Use of Characterization and Dialogue in The Miser
Introductiory Outline to Congreve's The Way of the World
Levels of Power and Authority in The Way of the World
Sentiment, Scandal, and Charity in The School for Scandal
Nineteenth Century
Hazlitt on Humor and Wit
Observations of Wilde's Aestheticism
Mood, Beauty, Impression, and Work in Uncle Vanya
Twentieth Century
The Anti-Heroism of Arms and the Man
Christian Spirituality in The Cocktail Party
The Farce of the Absurd and the Play of Surfaces in Endgame
Soyinka, Ogun, and Christ in the Brother Jero Plays