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Friedman, Sam. "Comedy and distinction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28072.

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Comedy plays an increasingly central role in British cultural life. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has grown into a booming multi-million pound industry, both on TV and on the live circuit. Despite this, sociology has traditionally afforded comedy little scholarly attention. Indeed, the art form has been largely omitted from large-scale sociological studies of British cultural production and consumption. Even in the most comprehensive assessment of British cultural tastes, Bennett et al's (2009) highly significant Culture, Class, Distinction, comedy was either ignored or defined prob
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Lüssmann, Nina. "Persönlichkeitsschutz und "Comedy"." München M-Press Meidenbauer, 2007.

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Stewart, Nicholas. "Abstraction and comedy." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2013. http://research.gold.ac.uk/9922/.

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The thesis, consisting of an extended artwork (Toy Zoo) and a theoretical text, aims to explore a concept of abstraction and relate this concept to an affect of comedy. The proposal of the thesis is that abstraction, looked at in a proper way, is funny. Abstraction is imagined not as the absence of ‘content’ or the generalization of form, but as a condition of language occasioned by a categorical loss, the loss of the ground that attaches meaning to a thing. The work takes this dissonance in language as its subject-matter. In a series of photographic images, representations of mental or concep
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McRae, Calista Anne. "Lyric as Comedy." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493550.

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Although the twentieth-century lyric poem might seem to intensify a genre of sentiment into a genre of meditative or tumultuous solipsism, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Lucie Brock-Broido, and Terrance Hayes write lyrics that are funny, on several planes. Each of these poets enacts a self-revealing comedy of the mind and its often labored, blinkered, or illogical cognitive processes; each also creates a comedy of style, where language and form exceed and confound paraphrase. This thesis brings out such comedies, arguing that lyric is a livelier, more paradoxical, and certainly le
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Olson, J. Kirby. "Klossowski and comedy /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9483.

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Turner, Matthew R. "Signs of Comedy: A Semiotic Approach to Comedy in the Arts." Ohio : Ohio University, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1126899710.

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Miles, Sarah N. "Strattis, tragedy, and comedy." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10887/.

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This study comprises a translation, textual commentary, and discussion of the fragments of the Old comic dramatist Strattis which engage with tragedy. It forms the centre of a wider examination of the art of paratragedy and tragic parody in Old Comedy because paratragedy represents the earliest reception of tragedy and one that is contemporary with the initial live performances of tragic plays. Ancient and modern scholarship alike has viewed Aristophanes as the dominant figure in the art of paratragedy and tragic parody. Strattis, a contemporary of Aristophanes, was active in the late fifth an
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Robinson, Rebecca Grace. "Scottish television comedy audiences." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1177/.

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This study explores how Scottish people feel about representations of Scottishness in contemporary television comedy. The thesis is in two related parts, articulating an exploration of genre, comedy and Scottish television texts with the theory, methodology and analysis of empirical audience research. The thesis begins by exploring how current television comedy is poorly served by critical literature beyond notions of genre although this field of study too fails to indicate significant contemporary permeabilities between comedy sub-genres, and between comedy and other kinds of leisure shows. T
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Dow, Stephanie B. "Prostitution in city comedy." Thesis, University of York, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399631.

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Collings, Rebecca. "Shedding light on dark comedy : humour and aesthetics in British dark comedy television." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59450/.

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The term ‘dark comedy’ is used by audiences, producers and academics with reference to an array of disparate texts, yet attempts to actually define it perpetuate a sense of confusion and contradiction. This suggests that although there is a kind of comedy that is common enough to be widely noted, and different enough from other types to require separation, how and why this difference can be perceived could be better understood. Accordingly, I investigate what is enabling the recognition and distinction in respect of British dark comedy programmes, and use this as a basis for considering how th
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Andresen, Niclas. "Flouting the maxims in comedy : An analysis of flouting in the comedy series Community." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31687.

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This paper explores how flouting of the Gricean maxims is used to create comedy in the television series Community.  The aim of the paper is to find out what maxims are flouted the most to create comedy and what maxims the different characters flout in order to create comedy. The paper examines the use of flouts in different situations and explores in what situations the different characters flout the maxims for comedy.  The paper is based on transcription of eight episodes of the series. The results show that the maxim of quantity was flouted most often, and some characters used more flouts t
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Bond, John A. "Reconcilable differences, a dark comedy." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1731.

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Reconcilable Differences is the story of Miami radio host Adam Painter. Confused about relationships, Adam cancels his wedding and, under the guidance of his bad-boy best friend, delves into the demi-monde inhabited by strippers and hookers. On the air he begins to examine how men and women interact. Adam explores the night world, moving from a connection with its denizens through his talk show to direct experience of its license and loneliness. He fails miserably in his clumsy efforts with women and is fired, sued and arrested. An unlikely, unwilling rebel, Adam confronts change and stumbles
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Carey, Stephen Joseph. "Comedy in James Joyce's Ulysses." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:80539d29-5f34-44af-b2a6-265d85000258.

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The comic in Ulysses needs more attention. The few studies that exist disregard the problems: the adoption of assumptions which limit discussion, the inconsistent terminology, the lingering prejudice regarding comedy as inferior to tragedy. This study begins by examining the common assumption that comedy in Ulysses is either a restraint on Joyce's saeva indignatio, or an affirmation of life; and then looks at the difficulties of comic criticism. Chapter two considers modern comedy, distinguishes three schools of theory, and indicates how these will be considered in relation to Ulysses. Chapter
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Hodson, Richard J. "Caroline town comedy 1628-1642." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251792.

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Bown, Alfie. "Eventual laughter : Dickens and comedy." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/eventual-laughter-dickens-and-comedy(b53f285d-bac9-43c8-827f-e63609226ea6).html.

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This thesis attempts to redress the drought of work on Dickens on comedy, which is surprising considering how often Dickens is thought of as a comic writer. The thesis uses Dickens to demonstrate problems with and resistance to existing theorizations of laughter, and attempts to develop a new way of thinking about laughter through Dickens. The thesis begins with a theoretical section, which is a discussion of existing discussions of laughter followed by an attempt to develop a new way of thinking about laughter by making use Alain Badiou’s concept of the ‘event.’ The thesis then moves to Secti
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Schlossman, Beryl. "Joyce's catholic comedy of language /." Madison ; London : University of Wisconsin press, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34923288d.

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Hobe, Sara [Verfasser]. "Hippocratic medicine in aristophanic comedy." Freiburg : Universität, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1167683048/34.

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Elson, Kate Christie. "Mental illness in American comedy." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12095.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University<br>The goal of this thesis is to explore the subject of mental illness in current American comedy films. Its focus centers upon comedic depictions of two classes of diseases: those within the category of Anxiety Disorders and Clinical Depression and related illnesses. Further, I discuss differences between depictions ofthe two. This thesis also details the cultural importance of the comedic genre in America and the dissonance between the genre's rigid structure, the nature of mental illness and our current lifestyle. It also explains our nation's complex and
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Weisl-Shaw, Andreea Marina. "The comedy of didacticism and the didacticism of comedy in medieval Spanish and French comic tales." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608536.

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Carson, Johnny. "How to write comedy for radio." [Lincoln, Neb.] : University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/theaterstudent/1/.

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Cheung, Man-hon Michael, and 張文瀚. "Toward a theory of Chinese comedy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949393.

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Quirk, Sophie. "Stand-up comedy : manipulation and influence." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589966.

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This thesis interprets the craft of stand-up comedy as a senes of manipulations. In a medium where interaction with the audience IS often unruly, manipulation IS frequently used to maintain the performer's control over his audience, and to persuade them to laugh. Comedians may also go beyond the immediate manipulation of response to have a more significant influence, persuading audiences to subvert their usual standards of morality, and shaping or re-shaping their opinions and attitudes. By examining the work and methodology of practitioners across the current British alternative stand-up come
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Doyle, Anne-Marie. "Shakespeare and the genre of comedy." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/177.

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Traditionally in the field of aesthetics the genres of tragedy and comedy have been depicted in antithetical opposition to one another. Setting out from the hypothesis that antitheses are aspects of a deeper unity where one informs the construction of the other’s image this thesis questions the hierarchy of genre through a form of ludic postmodernism that interrogates aesthetics in the same way as comedy interrogates ethics and the law of genre. Tracing the chain of signification as laid out by Derrida between theatre as pharmakon and the thaumaturgical influence of the pharmakeus or dramatist
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Bakola, Emmanuela. "Cratinus and the art of comedy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445304/.

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Cratinus, whom postclassical antiquity canonised alongside Aristophanes and Eupolis as one of the triad of the greatest poets of fifth-century Comedy, represents a period of the genre for which our knowledge is very limited. This thesis offers a comprehensive overview for this author and his position in the genre of Greek Comedy. After an introductory section, it goes on to examine Cratinus' comic art from five different angles, in five chapters. The first chapter sheds light on Cratinus' comic persona as it emerges from his plays, and demonstrates its central role in Cratinus' intertextual di
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Lewis, Melinda Maureen. "Renegotiating British Identity Through Comedy Television." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1245469847.

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Rainey, Kenneth Richard III. "Cross-Cultural Humor Through Comedy Films?" The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525141452462223.

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Sands, Zachary Adam. "Film Comedy and the American Dream." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1483612711940071.

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Ritchie, Christopher. "Stand up comedy and everyday life." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299784.

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Rich, Laura Brooke. "Language and power in Roman comedy." Thesis, [Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Libraries, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-05-157.

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Cheung, Man-hon Michael. "Toward a theory of Chinese comedy." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12754493.

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Polsky, Zachary Samuel. "Molière's machines : comedy, narrative, and politics /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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French, Kathleen Frances. "Happiness: Early Modernity and Shakespearean Comedy." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16703.

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This thesis investigates attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and literary representations of positive emotion. It is situated methodologically at the nexus of a number of interconnected approaches. Against a background of body studies and Freudian psychology, it engages with current research in the history of the emotions and work being done in the field of positive psychology. The insights provided by positive psychology into the power of positive emotions, such as optimism, resilience and emotional intelligence, open up a way to access the originality of Shakespeare’s understan
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Al-Muhammad, Hasan. "Domestics in the English comedy : 1660-1737." Thesis, Bangor University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267347.

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Gordon, Colette. "The play of credit in Shakespearean comedy." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515509.

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Olachea-Pérez, Rubén. "Humour, comedy and Mexican cinema : 1990-2001." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398721.

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Kotini, Vassiliki. "The dialectics of myth in Aristophanic comedy." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416961.

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Karakasis, Evangelos. "Terence and the language of Roman comedy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620973.

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Farrell, Austen. "Bloody Hilarious: Animal Sacrifice in Aristophanic Comedy." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:24078360.

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This thesis seeks to understand the portrayals of animal sacrifice in the Old Comedy of classical Greece, a genre commonly considered for vulgarity, personal invective, and roots far removed from sacred acts. Recognizing that even fictional representations of sacrifice are based on real religious ritual, and that Old Comedy had a responsibility to present to the polis a reflection of its own attitudes and behaviors, comic sacrifice scenes become a valuable mode of insight on a culture that we struggle to understand through limited evidence. Approaching the plays with this in mind uncovers a ri
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Roberts, Parker Kathryn. "Music and Festival Culture in Shakespearean Comedy." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23379.

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This thesis argues that Saturnalian festival practice is central to the representation of both vernacular and rhetorical forms of music in Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic texts. Since the early twentieth century, scholarly attention has largely focused on the representation of elaborate and rhetorical courtly styles of music in early modern theatre. As such, there has yet to be a study of music in stage drama where vernacular culture is the primary focus. This thesis examines the influence of vernacular music that arises from Saturnalian festival culture in six comedies written by Shakespear
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Brunning, Alizon. "Signs of change in Jacobean city comedy." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 1997. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/19035/.

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This thesis is concerned with a study of a particular genre, Jacobean city comedy, in relation to its socio-economic and religious context. It aims to show that the structural forms of city comedy share similarities with structures in Jacobean social consciousness. By arguing that the plays are productions of a material age this study suggests that these structures are manifestations of ideological changes brought about by two related systems of thought: capitalism and Protestantism.
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Tully, Meg. "Trainwreck feminism: women, comedy and postfeminist culture." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6315.

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This dissertation develops the theoretical framework of “trainwreck feminism.” Forwarded by contemporary women in comedy like Mindy Kaling, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, and Amy Schumer, trainwreck feminists adopt the trope of the trainwreck—excessive in need, sex, and madness—to demonstrate the disastrous consequences of growing up in postfeminist culture that both insists women are finally liberated and continues to police their choices. Engaging ongoing debates about whether postfeminism is over since feminism is becoming a status symbol for celebrities and public figures, I argue that postf
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Taberski, Derrick James. "A Gricean analysis of a situation comedy." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1439.

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Rainbird, Mark Charles. "Humorous inflections : "Goodness Gracious Me" : transformations in comedy /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arr154.pdf.

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Craig, Catriona Marie Sinclair. "Alternative comedy and the politics of live performance." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367515.

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Papachrysostomou, Athina. "A commentary on selected fragments of middle comedy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434914.

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Amoroso, Angelica Anna. "W.M. Thackeray and the tradition of English comedy." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30279.

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This thesis is about Thackeray and the comic tradition in the plays and novels of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It aims at showing that a study of Thackeray's fiction and its connection with the comedy of the past contributes to an understanding of the sophistication and subtlety of his comic vision. In his fiction Thackeray takes some of the comedic conventions of the tradition, though in some respects he also departs from them, expanding, developing and applying them to his time to make ironic comments on the inconsistencies and follies of English society from the eighteenth to t
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Dale, A. C. S. "The representation of the demagogues in Old Comedy." Thesis, Swansea University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636337.

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This thesis examines the representation of the 'demagogues', the leaders of Athens' radical democracy in the late-fifth and early-fourth centuries B.C., in the genre of Old Comedy. It looks at the comic sources, including the work of Aristophanes and fragments of the comedies of other poets, to see how they characterised the demagogues in their work, and to what purpose. A number of themes are studied, with the comic abuse quoted in the original Greek and in my own translations. The themes examined make up the chapters of the thesis, and are qualities with which the demagogues were charged in
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Sinner, Megan. "FEMINISM IN THE FILMS OF NEW GERMAN COMEDY." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1146072869.

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Feltovich, Anne C. "Women's Social Bonds in Greek and Roman Comedy." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1311691038.

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Townshend, Sarah Elizabeth. "Marriage and desire in seventeenth-century French comedy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6812.

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This thesis re-examines the role of marriage in the golden age of seventeenth-century French comedy. It reconsiders received wisdom on the subject to challenge acceptance of the final promise of marriage as a dénouement complet to comedy. Through an analysis of the themes of discontent, cuckoldry, fertility, non-heteronormative desire and widowhood, it offers an alternative view of what comedy can encompass. Close reading of works by Molière, Quinault, (Thomas) Corneille, (Françoise) Pascal, Ulrich and de Visé establishes that comedy can be both enjoyable and satisfying while incorporating ele
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