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A Cultural History Of Comedy: Volumes 1-6 (the Cultural Histories Series) by Andrew McConnell Stott; Eric Weitz, (Drama professor); Michael Ewans; Martha Bayless; Elizabeth Kraft; Matthew Kaiser; Louise Peacock is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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How has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it tell us about how society has changed? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes describe various manifestations of comedy, its use in religion, theatre and literature, and its historical and philosophical significance. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. Themes (and chapter titles) are: Form; Theory; Praxis; Identities; The Body; Politics and Power; Laughter; and Ethics. The page extent is approximately 1,824pp with c. 250 illustrations. The six volumes cover: Volume 1: A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity (500 BCE - 1000 AD) Edited by Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) Volume 2: A Cul

Who reads A Cultural History Of Comedy: Volumes 1-6 (the Cultural Histories Series)?

Author

Andrew McConnell Stott; Eric Weitz, (Drama professor); Michael Ewans; Martha Bayless; Elizabeth Kraft; Matthew Kaiser; Louise Peacock

Publisher

Cultural Histories

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350187719

Category

nonfiction