Author:
Publisher: Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
Keywords: humour, promises, sex
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1905102933
ISBN-13: 9781905102938
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: humour, man
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2009-04-29
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 0559089651
ISBN-13: 9780559089657
Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Book Jungle
Keywords: humour, man
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-06-08
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1438519443
ISBN-13: 9781438519449
Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.
Author: J. B. Priestley
Publisher: Obscure Press
Keywords: humour, english
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 184664979X
ISBN-13: 9781846649790
English Humour Originally published in 1929 as part of the English Heritage Series, this is a fascinating book charting the progression of English humour - from great writers to great illustrators. Priestley, the great English novelist, analyzes different the facets of English humor from Chaucer, Chesterton, Shakespeare, Gilbert, et al. in this scholarly, entertaining book. Chapters: The English Character, Clowns and Comedians, Comic Art, A Gallop and A Gossip, Three Novelists, Charles Lamb, Dickens, Shakespeare. Author: John Boynton Priestley, OM (September 13, 1894, Bradford,
Author: Leigh Hunt
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: humour, wit
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 1103008625
ISBN-13: 9781103008629
Author:
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Keywords: report, conference, cbi, history, humour
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 1993-01-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1871516803
ISBN-13: 9781871516807
This is an examination of facets of humour in the broadest sense, encompassing satire, irony and ridicule. In short, the human attitude to laughter and the use of it to influence public opinion. Aristotle felt that laughter was a distinctive trait of humanity and one that distinguished humans from the animals. On the other hand, the very existence of human beings could be considered a ’joke’. The contributors to this volume are based in a variety of fields, including psychology, drama, theology, sociology, and the humanities and address theories of humour within them. The result is
Author: Andrew J. Davison
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: computer, humour
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1995-05-04
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0262540754
ISBN-13: 9780262540759
You don’t have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this unique collection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic song lyrics, and jokey poems from the world of computing. Humour the Computer brings together a selection of some of the best computer- related humorous material culled from a variety of sources: news groups and FTP sites on the Internet, The New Yorker, Punch, New Scientist, BYTE, Datamation, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and many more. Among other topics, the 70-odd assorted writings embrace the
