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Recently Released! The Not So-Silent Years
A study of the cultural background to the formative centuries for comedy and tragedy, 400 B.C. to 20 A.D. including "Monotheism," "Slavery," "The Second Temple," "The Synagogue," "Animism," and “The Seven-Day Week.”
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Humor Preference and Folksong Appreciation: Peter, Paul, and Mary Return
White Christmas: A Preliminary Definition of Christmas Comedy
The Not-So-Silent Years: “The Psychological Outgrowth of Animism”
Enduring Favorites
Humor Corner: “Incongruity”
Cheshire Smile: “The Irrepressibly Complex Falstaff”
December Comedy: "Humor Structure Interplay in Steel Magnolias"
Vitalist Film Comedy: “Roman Holiday”
Comedic Tenor, Comic Vehicle: “Forrest Gump: Finding the Dominant Humor Form”
Full-length critical works published on this site include
Comedic Tenor, Comic Vehicle: Humor in American Film Comedy
December Comedy: Studies in Senior Comedy and Other Essays
Cheshire Smile: Humor Texture and Personality in Shakespeare's Comedies
Four Seasons: Variations in American Vitalist Film Comedy
Comedy in Space, Time, and the Imagination
Exploring Shakespearean Tragedy The Not-So-Silent Years
Plays and Films Discussed
Plays
Jean Anouilh, The Waltz of the Toreadors, New Mood, Chap. 3, pp 8-14
Aristophanes, The Birds
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, in New Mood, Chap. 3, p 3
William Congreve, The Way of the World, in New Mood, Chap. 1, p 7, 24
Friedrich Duerrenmatt: The Visit
Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot, in New Mood, Chap. 1, p 32
Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot, in New Mood, Chap. 3, p 7
Lorraine Hansburry, Raisin in the Sun, in New Mood, Chap 1, p 31
Henrik Ibsen, Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen, Pillars of Society
Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm
Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck, in New Mood, Chap. 1, p 40
Eugène Ionesco, Rhinoceros, in New Mood, Chap. 2, p 31.
Ben Jonson, Volpone, New Mood, Chap. 1, p 11
Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding, in New Mood, Chap. 2, pp 2-5
Arthur Miller, After the Fall, in New Mood, Chap 1, p 36
Molière, L’Avare
Molière, Les Précieuses Ridicules
Molière, Tartuffe
Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh
Plautus, Menaechmi, in New Mood, Chap. 1, p 19
William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life
William Shakespeare, Comedies:
As You Like It: As Modern Criticism Likes It
As You Like It: Reconsidered as Formal Comedy
As You Like It: As Enhanced by Humor
Comedy of Errors: Comedy or Farce?
Henry IV, Part 1: Comedic Structure
Henry V: Heroic Comedy and Considerations of Scale
Midsummer Night’s Dream: Comedy or Comickedy?
Much Ado About Nothing: Sombre Comedy
William Shakespeare, Tragedies:
Hamlet: Exploring Shakespearean Tragedy
Hamlet: ISST Abstract, Chap. 6
Julius Caesar: ISST Abstract
King Lear: Exploring Shakespearean Tragedy
Macbeth: Exploring Shakespearean Tragedy
Othello: Exploring Shakespearean Tragedy
Troilus and Cressida: ISST Abstract, Chap.3
John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea, in New Mood, Chap. 2 pp 2-4
Thorton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
Films
Aladdin: Advocate Humor Personality
The Big Chill: Entropic Humor
The Blues Brothers: Bridgebuilder Humor Personality
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Sombre Comedy, Definition, in New Mood, Chap.1, page 35
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Crusader Humor Personality
Driving Miss Daisy: Winter Vitalist Comedy
Driving Miss Daisy: Senior Comedy and Comedic Innovation
Driving Miss Daisy: Senior Vitalist Humor
Father of the Bride: Consoler Humor Personality
Fiddler on the Roof: Winter Vitalist Comedy
The Graduate: Somber Comedy, Definition, in New Mood, Chap. 1, page 35
Forrest Gump: Twelve Forms of Irony
Forrest Gump: Finding the Dominant Humor Form
Grumpy Old Men: Erich Segal and Aristophanes
Grumpy Old Men: Senior Comedy and Comedic Innovation
Hondo: John Ford/John Wayne’s Romantic Comedy
A League of Their Own: Reconciliation Comedy
Life with Father: Fall Vitalist Comedy
A Mighty Wind: Getting the Right Genre
The Music Man: Intellectual Humor Personality
My Big Fat Greek Wedding: Reconciler Humor Personality
My Fair Lady: Summer Vitalist Comedy
My Fair Lady: Vitalist Techniques in Practice
On Golden Pond: Senior Comedy and Comedic Innovation
On Golden Pond: Senior Vitalist Humor
On Golden Pond: Summer Vitalist Comedy
Rain Man: Box Office Dark Comedy
Rain Man: The Recent Rapid Development of Comedy
Rocky: Fall Vitalist Comedy
Roman Holiday: Summer Vitalist Comedy
The Sound of Music: Spring Vitalist Comedy
Stagecoach: John Ford, and Redemption Comedy
Steel Magnolias: Humor Structure Interplay
Steel Magnolias: Vitalist Techniques in Practice
The Student Prince: Spring Vitalist Comedy
The Whales of August: Humor and Comedic Restoration of Balance White Christmas: Christmas Comedy