INDEX 163Forman, Simon 22–4Frazer, James George 24Freud, Sigmund 10, 58–3 87, 131,132–40Frye, Northrop 24, 27–29Gaf, Fritz 126Galen 43Garber, Majorie 59, 65Gilman, Sander L 115–4Giuliani, Rudolph 97Goddard, Paulette 90Goldsmith, Oliver 8Gray, Francis 76–2, 136Greenblatt, Stephen 33–6, 61‘green world’ 28Gregory, John 92Griffiths, Trevor 107–19Grimaldi, Joseph 89, 138grotesque 82–87Halliwell, Stephen 100Hancock, Tony 56–57Harris, Jonathan Gil 52Haskell, Molly 64Haughton, William 42Heffer, Simon 101Hobbes, Thomas 126–4Hogarth, William 86holocaust 113–6Hopi Indians 138–7Horace 103–12Horton, Andrew 6House Committee on Un-AmericanActivities 98Huizinga, Johann 119humanism 21humours, the 43–6Hutcheson, Francis 128–6Hynes, William and Steele, Thomas50Izzard, Eddie 69–5Jacobson, Howard 123Jagendorf, Zvi 113Jayamanne, Laleen 90jokes 139–8;‘innocent’ and ‘tendentious’(Freud) 132;racist 136;sexist 91, 59, 107;and taboo 58–3Jonson, Ben 2–3, 34, 42–6Joubert, Laurent 124Jowell, Tessa 101Jung, Carl 52Juvenal 103, 105Kemp, William 48Kristeva, Julia 81–7Kubrick, Stanley 103Kundera, Milan 133–1Kyffin, MauriceLanger, Susanne 26–8La Rue, Danny 67laughter 1;after 9/11 97;in Bakhtin 124, 125;in Christianity 121–31;and feminine deportment 93–94;incongruity theory of 128–7;and intolerance 108;in poststructuralist theory 133–5;relief theory of 131–40;superiority theory of 124–5Leavis, F.R. 23Legaman, G. 59Leggatt, Alexander ix, 73Levin, Harry 6Lévi-Strauss, Claude 52–5Lewis, Jerry 113Limon, John 81Lippitt, John 130Manning, Bernard 107, 112–20Marlowe, Christopher 123
164 INDEXmarriage 70–77;in British sitcom 76–2;in US sitcom 77Menander 4, 40Merchant, W.Moelwyn 1Meredith, George 5Middleton, Thomas 73–9, 94mockery 126modernism 26Molière 8Monroe, Marilyn 64Monty Python 8–9, 82–8Moore, Michael 102–103Morreall, John 97, 98Morris, Chris 101–9Mullaney, Steven 32–5Myers, Mike 39–2Nancy, Jean-Luc 135–3New Comedy 20, 39, 40–4Newton, Esther 68Nietzsche, Friedrich 134Old Comedy 24Olson, Kirby 6–7Onion, The 97Orgel, Stephen 22, 61, 62–7, 77Palmer, Jerry 122Paster, Gail Kern 94Philomon 7Pinkerton, James 96Plato 17–18, 79Platter, Thomas 23Plautus 20, 40, 50–3Plessner, Helmuth 10–11Porter, Lorraine 92Quantick, David 102Rabelais, François 31, 83–9Rainolds, John 62rhetoric 125–3Rhodes, Neil 85Rosengard, Peter 112St Genesius 121satire 102–107Saunders, Jennifer 95Savage, Lily 67Segal, Erich 6Seinfeld 113Seinfeld, Jerry 79Sennett, Mack 91Shakespeare, William:As You Like It 60–7, 65–66;Antony and Cleopatra 48;Hamlet 48;1 Henry IV 85–1;2 Henry IV 86;King Lear 48;Macbeth 48;The Merchant of Venice 30;A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4,51–4;Much Ado About Nothing 73;Othello 48;The Taming of the Shrew 71;Twelfth Night 33, 36;Two Gentlemen of Verona 47;The Winter’s Tale 22, 73shame 80Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 54Shickel, Richard 116–5Sidney, Sir Philip 22, 125Sikov, Ed 64, 66Silk, M.S. 19Simpson, Mark 68slapstick 87–7Spencer, Herbert 131–9sprezzatura 54Sontag, Susan 55Stallybrass, Peter, and White, Allon34–7Stanhope, W. (Lord Chesterfield) 127stereotypes 39–6Stubbes, Philip 62Swift, Jonathan 94, 105–14
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