COMEDY

162 INDEXCavell, Stanley 87–3Chaplin, Charlie 88, 90, 90–7, 98,113–3charivari 36Charney, Maurice 5, 41–4, 78Chaucer, Geoffrey 21Christ 45Cicero 125city comedy 42–6Cixous, Hélène 135–4Clare, Janet 34Clement of Alexandria 122clowns and clowning 45, 47–49Collier, Jeremy 5Comedians, The (Granada Television)136comedy:in academia 15–37;ancient Greek root of 24–6;and censorship 34, 98;definition in literary history ix;as division of consciousness12–13;as dramatic form 2;as ‘élan vital’ 26;etymology of 3;as incongruity 8–10;as inversion 33, 35;as licensed transgression 33;medieval definition of 20–2;and ritual 24–6, 88, 123;sexual politics of 59–8;spring as metaphor for 27–28;as tonal quality 1–2Comedy Store, the 112commedia dell’arte 44commedia erudita 42, 44Congreve, William 5, 54, 75–1, 127Cook, Albert 98Cook, William 112Cooper, Anthony Ashley, (LordShaftsbury) 97, 128Cornford, Francis Macdonald 24–7Coward, Noël, 55–9Coyote 49–2Crafton, Donald 90Crates 4Critchley, Simon 11, 134, 135cross-dressing 59–7;see also drag;transvestismDale 88–4, 114Daniell, David 24Dante Alighieri 3, 21deconstruction 135–3Dekker, Thomas 73–9de Man, Paul 12–13Denby, David 117Derrida, Jacques 135Dickens, Charles 138Dionysia, the 4, 99Dionysus 3–4Donatus 4, 5, 20, 22double acts 8Double, Oliver 112Douglas, Mary 9–10drag 66–5;see also cross-dressing,transvestismEcclesiastes 121Eco, Umberto 15Elias, Norbert 75–6Eliot, T.S. 26Erasmus, Desiderius 46–9Evans, Peter William 64fabula 44Falstaff 34, 84–86feast of fools 45, 123female body, the 91–96Ferris, Leslie 93festival 35–8;see also carnivalFielding, Henry 129Flanzbaum, Hilene 117fools and folly 44–49, 140