The Comic
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An essay on comedy
Redeeming laughter
Immortal comedy
An act in a backwater
Last laughs
The Cambridge introduction to comedy
English comedy
Comedy/cinema/theory
Theology as Comedy
Henry Fielding's theory of the comic prose epic
The theory of comedy
Comedy, an annotated bibliography of theory and criticism
The language of humour
The Historical Jesus
Performing gender and comedy
The action of English comedy
Comedy, meaning and form
The comic style of P. G. Wodehouse
The comic matrix of Shakespeare's tragedies
Comedy high and low
How to be funny
Stand-up comedy
The comic vision in literature
Humor and comedy in puppetry
Funny business
An essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit
How to be a successful emcee
The art of James Thurber
In pursuit of laughter
Enjoyment of laughter
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