The road to comedy : the films of Bob Hope / Donald W. McCaffrey. by McCaffrey, Donald W.

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Slapstick Comedy / edited by Tom Paulus and Rob King.

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The comedy of errors : critical essays / edited by Robert S. Miola.

Table of Contents: “…The critical history of the Comedy of errors -- The play and the critics / Robert S Miola -- The Comedy of errors: different voices -- A poetical farce (1836) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Weirdness in the Comedy of errors (1939) / G R Elliott -- Themes and structure in the Comedy of errors (1961) / Harold F Brooks -- Brave new world (1965) / T W Baldwin -- Two comedies of errors (1966) / Harry Levin -- Shakespeare's comedy of love: the Comedy of errors (1974) / Alexander Laggatt -- Shakespeare's Comedy of errors and the nature of kinds (1988) / Arthur F Kinney -- Comedia grave and the Comedy of errors (1989) / Louise George Clubb -- Dining out in Ephesus: food in the Comedy of errors (1990) / Joseph Candido -- Rectifying Shakespeare's errors: romance and farce in bardeditry (1991) / Charles Whitworth -- Reading errantly: misrecognition and the uncanny in the Comedy of errors (1991) / Barbara Freedman -- "Stigmatical in making": the material character of the Comedy of errors (1993) / Douglas Lanier -- The Comedy of errors in the context of the late 1580's and early 1590's (1997) / David Bevington -- The girls from Ephesus (1997) / Laurie Maguire -- The errors of the verse: metrical reading and performance of the Comedy of errors (1997) / Brennan O'Donnell -- The Comedy of errors in performance -- The Gesta Grayorum account [At Gray's Inn, 1597] -- Shakespeare and the Prince of Purpoole: the 1594 production of the Comedy of errors at Gray's Inn Hall / Margaret Knapp and Michal Kobialka -- The Elizabethan stage society production at Gray's Inn, 1895 / George Bernard Shaw -- Die irrungen: the Comedy of errors in Germany / G̈unter Walch -- Stimulation Komisarjevsky production: Stratford's best, 1938 / M.F.K.F. -- The Comedy of errors: Russian producer's Marry Pranks, 1938 / C. -- The act of uniformity: Williams production, 1962 / Edmund Gardner -- Shakespeare in Britain: Williams production, 1962 / Robert Speaight -- Comedy of errors at Stratford: Williams production, 1962/1972 / Michael Billington -- The Comedy of errors in Japan / Peter Milward, S.J. -- Trevor Nunn's musical production, 1976 / Sally Emerson -- Theory and practice: Stratford, 1976 / Roger Warren -- The Comedy of errors: reflections of an actor / Roger Rees -- Robert Woodruff's circus production, 1983 / Joel G Fink -- Adrian Noble's Stratford production, 1983 / Charles Whitworth -- Life S̈öderström's Stockholm production, 1983 -- The Comedy of errors on television / H R Coursen -- Crinkles in the carnival: ideology in South Africa productions of the Comedy of errors to 1985 / Rohan Quince -- Ian Judge's Stratford production, 1990 / Peter Holland -- Errors: Shakespeare, Rattled & Droll: Shenandoah Shakespeare express production, 1992 / Pamela Sommers.…”

A midsummer night's sex comedy / a Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe production ; produced by Robert Greenhut ; written and directed by Woody Allen. by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847

Jack Benny and the golden age of American radio comedy / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley. by Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn

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Saltwater / BBC Films and Bord Scannan na hEireann/the Irish Film Board in association with Radio Telefis Eireann and Alta Films present a Treasure Films production ; producer, Robert Walpole ; written and directed by Conor McPherson. by McPherson, Conor, 1971-

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Le Candidat : Comédie en quatre actes. by Flaubert, Gustave

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H. L. Mencken : Prejudices, first, second, and third series. by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask / United Artists Corp. ; director, Woody Allen ; produced by Charles H. Joffe.

Hellzapoppin' / Universal presents ; directed by H.C. Potter ; screenplay, Nat Perrin, Warren Wilson ; a Mayfair production.

Chappelle's show : the complete show series / Comedy Central ; writers, Neal Brennan, Dave Chappelle, Charles Q. Murphy, Bryan H. Tucker ; directed by Andre Allen and others.

100 essential silent film comedies / James Roots. by Roots, James, 1955-

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Names as metaphors in Shakespeare's comedies / Grant W. Smith. by Smith, Grant W., 1937-

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The influence of Molière on Restoration comedy / by Dudley Howe Miles. by Miles, Dudley H. (Dudley Howe), 1881-

Comedy and the public sphere : the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena / by Árpád Szakolczai. by Szakolczai, Árpád

Table of Contents: “…Commedia dell'Arte : schismogenic sub-plots and irresistible stock-types ; Shakespeare : the tragedy of world history being a comedy ; Representing representation : visionary images of Commedia dell'Arte -- The rebirth of Commedia dell'Arte as the Avant-garde. …”

Comedy and the Public Sphere : the Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena. by Szakolczai, Arpad

Table of Contents: “…Transmitting, receiving and nurturing the Byzantine spirit -- The rise of theatre in Venice -- The effect mechanism of Commedia dell'Arte: visions and realities of commedification -- Commedia dell'Arte: schismogenic sub-plots and irresistible stock-types -- Shakespeare: the tragedy of world history being a comedy -- Representing representation: visionary images of Commedia dell'Arte -- The rebirth of Commedia dell'Arte as the Avant-garde. …”
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Komparatistische Perspektiven auf Dantes 'Divina Commedia' : Lektüren, Transformationen und Visualisierungen / Monika Schmitz-Emans, Stephanie Heimgartner.

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They'll never put that on the air : an oral history of taboo-breaking TV comedy / Allan Neuwirth ; interior illustrations by Glen Hanson. by Neuwirth, Allan

A companion to film comedy / edited by Andrew Horton and Joanna E. Rapf.

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The film comedy reader / edited by Gregg Rickman.

Table of Contents: “…Hoberman -- The trickster kid: harold llyod's one-reel comedies / Ken Bowers -- The three stooges and the commedia dell' arte / Kathleen Chamberlain -- Laurel and hardy / Charles Barr -- 3. …”