The document provides a history of humor from ancient times to the modern era. It discusses examples of humor found in Gothic cathedrals, classical graffiti, and the works of playwrights like Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence, and Shakespeare. It also covers the rise of humor in novels by authors such as Cervantes, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Twain, and Heller among others. The document examines different eras and genres of comedy like Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, New Comedy, as well as jesters, fools, and the development of wit and satire over time.
William Shakespeare is cllaed the Bard of Avan.
Shakespeare's influence is summarized nicely by Thomas Carlyle.
This King Shakespeare does he not shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying-signs; indestructible; really more valuable in that point of view than any other means or appliance whatsoever? We can fancy him as radiant aloft over all Nations of Englishmen, thousand years hence. From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, English men and women are, they will say to one another, 'Yes, this Shakespeare is ours; we produced him, we speak and think by him; we are of one blood and kind with him. (Thomas Carlyle, The Hero as Poet, 1841).
it includes understanding of humor and satire, in chaucer's work, including examples with reference to the canterbury tales, also critics views on satire and humor of chaucer.
William Shakespeare is cllaed the Bard of Avan.
Shakespeare's influence is summarized nicely by Thomas Carlyle.
This King Shakespeare does he not shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying-signs; indestructible; really more valuable in that point of view than any other means or appliance whatsoever? We can fancy him as radiant aloft over all Nations of Englishmen, thousand years hence. From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, English men and women are, they will say to one another, 'Yes, this Shakespeare is ours; we produced him, we speak and think by him; we are of one blood and kind with him. (Thomas Carlyle, The Hero as Poet, 1841).
it includes understanding of humor and satire, in chaucer's work, including examples with reference to the canterbury tales, also critics views on satire and humor of chaucer.
The RAGE that made Achilles the most dreaded warrior of the Greeks, the rage that drove him to slay so many noble Trojan warriors, was also the rage which urged him to withdraw from battle, the rage he felt when the main King Agamemnon seized the beloved maiden Briseis from Achilles, Briseis, the Trojan maiden, the prize of war. Then, when Patroclus, his best friend wearing his armor, is killed in battle by the Trojan hero Hector, Achilles goes mad with rage, turning into a killing machine, avenging his friend’s death by killing Hector and many Trojans, even though his goddess mother Thetis revealed to him that if he returned to battle, he would die in battle, rather than live a long life in obscurity if he simply returned home.
The Iliad both glorifies the glory and honor the brave warrior earns on the battlefield while also exposing the meaningless and futility of war, with many touching family scenes of husbands and fathers whose fates are doomed. The Trojan War is doubly futile, the Greeks are fighting for the return of Helen of Troy, who was abducted from the Greek Menelaus by the Trojan Prince Paris, and Helen now despises Paris for the long war he was brought on his people.
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self explanatory material about Characteristics and structure of comedy. it contains definition of comedy and history and its basis sections into which it is divided. Old comedy , middle comedy. new comedy.
The RAGE that made Achilles the most dreaded warrior of the Greeks, the rage that drove him to slay so many noble Trojan warriors, was also the rage which urged him to withdraw from battle, the rage he felt when the main King Agamemnon seized the beloved maiden Briseis from Achilles, Briseis, the Trojan maiden, the prize of war. Then, when Patroclus, his best friend wearing his armor, is killed in battle by the Trojan hero Hector, Achilles goes mad with rage, turning into a killing machine, avenging his friend’s death by killing Hector and many Trojans, even though his goddess mother Thetis revealed to him that if he returned to battle, he would die in battle, rather than live a long life in obscurity if he simply returned home.
The Iliad both glorifies the glory and honor the brave warrior earns on the battlefield while also exposing the meaningless and futility of war, with many touching family scenes of husbands and fathers whose fates are doomed. The Trojan War is doubly futile, the Greeks are fighting for the return of Helen of Troy, who was abducted from the Greek Menelaus by the Trojan Prince Paris, and Helen now despises Paris for the long war he was brought on his people.
The blogs on the Iliad and the Odyssey start with, and include:
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self explanatory material about Characteristics and structure of comedy. it contains definition of comedy and history and its basis sections into which it is divided. Old comedy , middle comedy. new comedy.
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Dramas staged between 1660 and 1700 are called ‘Restoration Dramas’. The dramatic literature of the period was dominated by comedies called ‘Comedy of manners’. Actually ‘Restoration Comedy’ is used as a synonym for “Comedy of Manners”. The plot of the comedy, often concerned with scandal, was traditionally less important than its witty dialogues.
The comedy of manners was first developed in the new comedy of the Ancient Greek Playwright Menander. His style, elaborate plots, and stock characters were imitated by the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence, whose comedies were widely known and copied during the Renaissance. The best-known comedies of manners, however, may well be those of the French playwright Moliere.
Oscar Wilde and William Congreve are the most celebrated authors of ‘Comedy of Manners’.
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The History of Humo
1. 1
The History of Humor
By Don L. F. Nilsen and
Alleen Pace Nilsen
2. Humor in Gothic Cathedrals
Notre Dame Cathedral is on the Isle de la Cité in Paris France. At the
entrance is the sculpture of a beheaded Christian martyer holding his
own head.
Winchester Cathedral is a Gothic Cathedral in England. In the rafters is
the Winchester Imp, placed there by the masons, and smiling down on
the congregation below.
2
4. Classical Graffiti & Ironic Oratory
In ancient Greece and Rome, there are
examples of graffiti, many of which are
very funny.
Classical Oratory also contained many
examples of Irony, Paradox, Parody, and
Ridicule.
4
5. 5
The History of Comedy
• Greek comedies were often bawdy or
ribald and ended happily for everyone.
• To Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other
writers of the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, a comedy was a story
(but especially a play) with a happy
ending, whether humorous or not.
6. 6
Homer (9th
-8th
Century BC)
• Aristotle’s Poetics, includes Homer in his
discussion of the comic:
• “A poem of the satirical kind cannot indeed
be put down to any author earlier than
Homer; though many such writers probably
there were.”
• But from Homer onward, many instances of
the comic can be cited.
8. 8
Old Comedy, Middle Comedy and New Comedy
• Old Comedy of the 6th
& 5th
Centuries BC often made
fun of a specific person and of current political
issues.
• Middle Comedy of the 5th
& 4th
Centuries BC made fun
of more general themes such as literature,
professions, and society.
• New Comedy of the 4th
& 3rd
Centuries BC usually
revolved around the bawdy adventures of a
blustering soldier, a young man in love with an
unsuitable woman, or a father figure who cannot
follow his own advice.
9. 9
Aristophanes (c450-c388 BC)
• Of the Old and Middle comedies, the only ones that have
survived complete are eleven plays of Aristophanes.
• The Clouds lampoons Socrates in heaven, in the Old tradition,
while Lysistrata makes fun of human nature in general.
• In Plutus both the wealth and the poverty in Athens are
personified. The citizenry are so distracted that they neglect
the gods.
• Plutus is considered to be Middle comedy.
11. 11
Titus Maccius Plautus (c254-184 BC)
Plubius Terentius Terence (185-c159 BC)
• Comedy in the Roman Empire is generally
reduced to the works of Plautus and Terence,
the former of whom lived at about the same
time as Menander, the latter about a century
later.
• Both Plautus and Terence wrote plays of the
old Greek sort—farces involving the same
stock characters (father, soldier, slave) and
which, unlike the plays of Aristophanes,
offended no one in particular.
12. 12
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
• Most of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” is not at all funny.
• It is about “Paradiso” as contrasted with “Purgatorio” and the
“Inferno.”
• It was called a comedy because it is a story about the
powerless vs. the powerful, or the little man vs. the big man, or
even about the perils and pitfalls of social pretence.
• And thus, “The Divine Comedy” was indeed a “comedy” only in
the classical sense of the word.
14. 14
• The Inferno, the first installment of
Dante’s The Divine Comedy, describes
damned souls engaging in bawdy
behavior and word play.
• The second and third installments of
The Divine Comedy are however
distinctly not funny, and demonstrate
that in the fourteenth century a comedy
need do nothing more than end happily.
15. 15
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
• Boccaccio’s Decameron is a collection of
stories told by a group of ten nobles who
have fled the Black Death by shutting
themselves up in a lonely castle.
• Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales were influenced
by Boccaccio’s Decameron, and they have
basically the same structure.
17. 17
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1342-1400)
• In the Middle Ages, the farces, bawdies, and
satires of Greek and Roman literature
continued to be popular.
• Chaucer is best known for his Canterbury
Tales, some of which (e.g. The Miller’s Tale)
are both bawdy and still funny by today’s
standards.
19. 19
• Chaucer also penned The Romaunt of
the Rose, a satire on love and
courtship, and The House of Fame
which seems to spoof Dante’s idea of
the narrator and the guide.
• In Chaucer’s version, the narrator
would rather not listen to the guide.
20. 20
Erasmus (1466-1536)
• Erasmus has very clear political and religious
objectives in The Praise of Folly, where Folly is
nursed and instructed by Self- Love, Flattery,
Intemperance, and a number of other personified
sins, and goes on to criticize the Catholic Church.
• These personified characteristics are what made this
piece allegorical.
• Oddly enough, the joke was on Erasmus, who was a
staunch Catholic, but whose work became a major
catalyst of the Protestant Reformation.
21. 21
François Rabelais (c1483-1553)
• Rabelais published a series of five books
collectively known as Gargantua and
Pantagruel.
• Gargantua and his son Pantagruel are two
giants of unfixed size, who can sometimes fit
into a normal building and sometimes hold
whole civilizations inside of their mouths.
23. 23
These books contain satires on the
Roman Catholic church, bawdy stories,
and scatological humor as well as plain
silliness that reminds the modern reader
of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
• Rabelais’ brand of silliness and freedom
from the laws of physics and of logic
was discussed by the critic Bakhtin,
who calls this atmosphere the ‘carnival’
world.
24. 24
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• Shakespeare’s plays are sometimes divided into
Comedy, Tragedy, and History.
• The history plays are, obviously, those based on
historical personages such as Richard III and Henry
IV.
• The difference between comedy and tragedy is still
very much the same as in Greek plays—comedies
have happy endings and tragedies have sad ones;
tragic heroes are larger than life, while comic heroes
are flawed.
26. 26
• Shakespeare’s comedies are also usually
funny, but unlike the Greek bawdy plays and
satires, their humor lies in word play—puns,
allusions, and double-entendres that are very
often lost on today’s audience.
• Careful perusal of an annotated version of
Love’s Labours Lost or All’s Well That Ends
Well will reveal the surprising density of jokes
in these plays, which are supposed to have
had Elizabethan audiences roaring with
laughter.
27. 27
• Falstaff, a great comic and humorous
character demonstrates Bakhtin’s “carnival.”
• Falstaff appears not in comedy plays, but in
history plays--Henry IV parts I and II.
• Shakespeare’s tragedies, too, often include a
figure of a clown or fool. His job is not so
much to provide mirth or laughter as it is to
provide commentary that is sometimes satiric
and very often funny.
28. Court Jesters from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
• During the Middle Ages, Kings’ Court Jesters were not to be in
competition with the Kings.
• So most often they were deformed midgets with humped backs and
bug eyes.
• They acted stupid to match their clothing—cap and bells, motley
clothes, and pointed shoes.
• Their scepters were made from pig bladders as parodies of the King’s
scepter of power.
• In many plays, the fool is smarter than the King, but because of his
appearance he could be critical of the King and the Kingdom.
28
29. Fools During the Renaissance and Beyond
• There are both foolish and wise fools in Shakespeare’s plays.
• Contrast the wise fool with the dead fool (Yorrick) in Hamlet and the
wise/foolish women in The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about
Nothing.
• Street jugglers and street musicians came out of these Renaissance
traditions.
• So did England’s “Punch and Judy” shows, Italy’s “Commedia d’el
Arte,” and France’s “Comedie Française.”
• As well as England’s “Comedy of Humours,” and “Comedy of
Manners,” and America’s ventriloquists and political cartoonists.
29
30. 30
The Eighteenth Century
• The eighteenth century saw the rise of
a new kind of humorous author: the
wit.
• A wit is usually a person who can make
quick, wry comments in the course of
conversation.
31. 31
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• Swift is best known for his novel Gulliver’s Travels
in which sailor Lemuel Gulliver recounts his visits to
strange lands inhabited by fantastic peoples.
• Gulliver’s last voyage finds him in a land where
horses are the dominant species, and keep dumb,
barbaric humans (called Yahoos) as beasts of
burden.
• This novel is a humorous reflection on the failings of
civilization.
33. 33
• Swift’s A Modest Proposal is an essay
which suggests that the problems of
overpopulation and starvation in the
lower classes (especially in Ireland)
would be readily solved if they would eat
their own children.
34. 34
William Congreve (1670-1729)
• William Congreve was a contemporary of
Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.
• His The Old Batchelor (1693), The Double
Dealer (1693), Love for Love (1695), and The
Way of the World (1700) are all satires filled
with ironies and paradoxes.
35. 35
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
• While Jonathan Swift was writing satirical novels,
Alexander Pope was writing satirical poetry.
• Pope’s Imitations of Horace satirizes the policies of
George II and Horace Walpole while imitating the
form of a classical poet.
• Pope’s Moral Essays are works more of ridicule than
of satire, and are not considered humorous by
everybody.
• Pope’s most celebrated satire was named Dunciad.
36. 36
Voltaire (François-Marie Arout) (1694-1778)
• Voltaire dabbled in many different literary
forms—from novels to plays, history, poetry,
letters, and essays.
• His signature wit is present in all, and some
are expressly meant to be satires, especially
on the Catholic church, censorship, and
French civil liberties (or lack of).
37. 37
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
• Tom Jones is a light-hearted tale of
adventure, containing many hilarious
episodes and ends happily for
everyone who is deserving.
40. 40
Charlotte Lenox (1720-1804)
• Charlotte Lenox’s The Female Quixote
tells the story of Arabella, a young
woman whose only education and
contact with the outside world has
consisted of reading romance novels,
and the adventures she has when she
becomes independently wealthy and
comes face-to-face with the outside
world.
41. 41
Jane Austen (1775-1859)
• Jane Austen’s characters are
simultaneously true-to-life and
ridiculous.
• All of her novels can simultaneously be
read as scorching satires of human
nature, comedies of humours and
comedies of manners.
43. 43
Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852)
• Some of Gogol’s short stories like The
Nose are bizarre, almost to the point
where humor is lost to wonder and
confusion.
• In The Nose a man’s nose goes AWOL
and walks about the city causing
trouble.
44. 44
• But some of Gogol’s short stories are
so dark and horrible that, while the story
is most certainly a joke with a punch
line, the reader is loathe to laugh.
• For example, in The Overcoat a poor
clerk starves himself to buy a new coat,
which is stolen from him on the first
night he wears it.
45. 45
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
• Both Charles Dickens and William
Makepeace Thackeray became enormously
popular for sympathetic portrayals of
eccentric characters.
• There are many straightforward jokes and
much satire in their novels, which can be
considered comedies because they end well
for almost everyone.
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
• Charles Dickens is famous for the eccentrics
that he portrays in his novels.
• For example, the characterizations of Silas
Wegg and Mr. Venus in Our Mutual Friend
make us laugh in delight at the recognition
and exaggeration of a ‘type’ of person that
we ourselves have met in real life.
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Mid 19th
Century
• James Russell Lowell’s Birdofreedum Sawin said,
“at any rate, I’m so used up I can’t do no more
fightin’ / The only chance thet’s left to me is politics
or writin’.”
• On the western frontier, wise fools, con-men, and
tricksters like Johnson J. Hooper’s Simon Suggs
and George Washington Harris’s Sut Lovingood
were employed to portray the rough and
unsophisticated American as an ironic hero. Suggs
was lazy and dishonest, and he knew it was “good to
be shifty in a new country.”
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Sut Lovingood (1814-1869
• Sut Lovingood expressed a rude racism and
sexism.
• He argued in favor of drinking, sex,
roughhousing, and a deep mistrust of
preachers, widows, and other guardians of
civilization.
• His freedom, joy of life, and cynicism
supported the counter culture.
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Mark Twain (1835-1910)
• Like Charles Dickens in England, Mark
Twain in America wrote vernacular
novels with eccentric characters.
• Twain wrote stories about characters
that are more real than real life, more
true to type than any true person could
be.
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• Oscar Wilde is a great comic playwright
whose only joke, it seems, was to contrast
the honest, industrious morés of the public
world with the lazy selfish motivations of his
elegant heroes.
• Wilde’s plays exhibit a gift for word play and
repartée, as well as cultivation of ridiculous
situations.
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P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
• Wodehouse wrote many novels about
the nitwit Bertie Wooster and his
gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves.
• Wodehouse’s works usually hinge
around a ridiculous social situations
created by the characters themselves.
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E. B. White (1899-1985)
• In 1941, E. B. White wrote, “Humor can
be dissected as a frog can, but the
thing dies in the process and the
innards are discouraging to any but the
pure scientific mind.”
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George Orwell (1903-1950)
• Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory.
• On the surface it is a story about
personified farm animals.
• But it is probably also about the
Russian revolution.
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Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
• Isaac Asimov is famous as a science
fiction writer, but he also published two
books of jokes, one in 1971, and one in
1993.
• These joke books contain commentary
on why the jokes are funny, and
suggestions on how to become a good
joke teller.
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Joseph Heller (1923-)
• Joseph Heller wrote gallows humor in which he tried
to make people laugh and then feel like fools for
having laughed.
• He wrote Catch 22 in which Yosarian had to prove
that he was insane in order to get out of the army,
but by trying to get out of the army he was proving
that he was sane.
• Another “catch 22” in the novel was that they had to
fly a certain number of missions before returning
home, but the number kept increasing.
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Television Humor
• Television opened huge new vistas for
performing arts in general, and humor in
particular.
• Early TV featured humorous variety shows
like Laugh In, and Saturday Night Live.
• There was also much sketch humor in such
shows as Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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The First Comic Strips
• The early strips such as ‘The Yellow Kid’ were
curious combinations of down-to-earth slapstick,
topical joking, and rather abstract referencing.
• In the hands of a Windsor McCay (‘Little Nemo in
Slumberland,’ ‘The Adventures of the Rare-bit
Fiend,’) they were creative indeed, and could border
on the surreal and handle social satire at the same
time.
• George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat’ mostly settled for a
domestic humor involving marital conflict and bratty
kids.
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The Golden Age of Humor
• The golden age of humor was often
considered to be the 1920s but would be
more accurately placed from the end of WWI
to the early 30s.
• During this golden age, we see the
development of the “little man” in Casper
Milquetoast, Andy Gump, Jiggs, Mutt (of
“Mutt and Jeff”), and Dagwood (of “Blondie
and Dagwood”).
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Blondie and Dagwood
• Dagwood loses battles with his wife,
Blondie, his kids, the dog, his boss, and the
neighborhood bridge club (intruding on his
bath).
• His defense is napping as often as he can,
eating everything in sight [Dagwood
Sandwiches], and knocking down the
mailman as he rushes off to work in the
morning.
• It was a comic counter-balance to American
arrogance, and self-confidence.
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The 1940s
• The humorous comic strips that were revived after
the Second World War included Walt Kelly’s “Pogo,”
and Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner.”
• Kelly’s swamp fables were allegorical ‘swamps’
themselves, loaded with social and political
commentary lurking behind the antics and
interactions of the familiar cast of animal characters.
• Al Capp’s “hillbillies” gave access to Capp’s views
on topical events, government, and American
values.
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Charles Schulz’s Eccentrics
• The “Peanuts” comic strip uses kids to reflect adult neuroses:
• Lucy uses her meanness to compensate for the unrequited love she
has for Schroeder (who keeps trying to play Beethoven on a toy piano
with painted on black keys).
• Linus has his blanket to comfort him when his childhood fears and
fantasy get in the way of his intellect,
• and the dog, Snoopy, deals with the limitations of his ‘dogness’ by
pretending to be the Red Baron, or a lawyer, writer, hockey player,
detective and resident of a deluxe doghouse complete with a pool
table and rare paintings.
• Charlie Brown, the consummate loser, little man character, reflects all
the fears, weaknesses, and failures of modern man. He knows that
Lucy will pull the football away from him when he tries to kick it, yet
every year he tries again.
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History of International Humor Conferences
1976: Cardiff Wales
1982: Los Angeles, CA
1984: Tel Aviv, Israel
1985: Cork, Ireland
1982-1987: Tempe, AZ
1988: West Lafayette, IN
1989: Laie, HI
1990: Sheffield, England
1991: St. Catharines, Canada
1992: Paris France
1993: Luxembourg
1994: Ithaca, NY
1995: Birmingham, England
1996: Sydney, Australia
1997: Edmond, OK
1998: Bergen, Norway
1999: Oakland, CA
2000: Osaka, Japan
2001: College Park, MD
2002: Forli, Italy
2003: Chicago, IL
2004: Dijon, France
2005: Youngstown, OH
2006: Copenhagen, Denmark
2007: Newport, RI
2008: Alcala, Spain
2009: Long Beach, CA
2010: Hong Kong
2011: Boston, MA
2012: Krakow, Poland
2013: Williamstown, VA
2014: Utrecht, Netherlands
2015: Oakland, CA