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History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour By: Alfred G. K. L'Estrange (1832-1915) |
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With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour. by THE REV. A. G. L'ESTRANGE, Author of
"The Life of the Rev. William Harness,"
"From the Thames to the Tamar,"
Etc. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. London:
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers,
13, Great Marlborough Street.
1878.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. Subjective Character of the Ludicrous The Subject little
Studied Obstacles to the Investigation Evanescence Mental
Character of the Ludicrous Distinction between
Humour and the Ludicrous 1
INTRODUCTION. PART I. ORIGIN OF HUMOUR. Pleasure in Humour What is Laughter? Sympathy First
Phases Gradual Development Emotional Phase Laughter
of Pleasure Hostile Laughter Is there any sense of the Ludicrous
in the Lower Animals? Samson David Solomon Proverbs Fables 13 PART II. GREEK HUMOUR. Birth of Humour Personalities Story of Hippocleides Origin
of Comedy Archilochus Hipponax Democritus,
the Laughing Philosopher Aristophanes Humour
of the Senses Indelicacy Enfeeblement of the Drama Humorous
Games Parasites, their Position and Jests Philoxenus Diogenes Court
of Humour Riddles Silli 52
PART III. ROMAN HUMOUR. Roman Comedy Plautus Acerbity Terence Satire Lucilius Horace
Humour of the Cæsar Family Cicero Augustus Persius Petronius
Juvenal Martial Epigrammatist Lucian Apuleius Julian
the Apostate The Misopogon Symposius' Enigmas Macrobius Hierocles
and Philagrius 99
ENGLISH HUMOUR. CHAPTER I. MIDDLE AGES. Relapse of Civilization in the Middle Ages Stagnation of
Mind Scarcity of Books Character of reviving Literature Religious
Writings Fantastic Legends Influence
of the Crusades Romances Sir Bevis of Hamptoun Prominence
of the Lower Animals Allegories 161 CHAPTER II. Anglo Saxon Humour Rhyme Satires against the Church The
Brunellus Walter Mapes Goliardi Piers the
Ploughman Letters of Obscure Men Erasmus The
Praise of Folly Skelton The Ship of Fools Doctour
Doubble Ale The Sak full of Nuez Church Ornamentation Representations
of the Devil 179 CHAPTER III. Origin of Modern Comedy Ecclesiastical Buffoonery Jougleurs
and Minstrels Court Fools Monks' Stories The
"Tournament of Tottenham" Chaucer Heywood Roister
Doister Gammer Gurton 211 CHAPTER IV. Robert Greene Friar Bacon's Demons The "Looking
Glasse" Nash and Harvey 231 CHAPTER V. Donne Hall Fuller 243 CHAPTER VI. Shakespeare Ben Jonson Beaumont and Fletcher The
Wise Men of Gotham 250 CHAPTER VII. Jesters Court of Queen Elizabeth James I. The
"Counterblasts to Tobacco" Puritans Charles II.
Rochester Buckingham Dryden Butler 271 CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration Etheridge Wycherley 303 CHAPTER IX. Tom Brown His Prose Works Poetry Sir Richard
Blackmore D'Urfey Female Humorists Carey 312 CHAPTER X. Vanbrugh Colley Cibber Farquhar 340 CHAPTER XI. Congreve Lord Dorset 355
HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR.
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. Subjective Character of the Ludicrous The Subject little
Studied Obstacles to the Investigation Evanescence Mental Character
of the Ludicrous Distinction between Humour and the Ludicrous.
The ludicrous is in its character so elusive and protean, and the field
over which it extends is so vast, that few have ever undertaken the task
of examining it systematically... Continue reading book >>
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