COMEDY

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