Tag: Comedy

Free Download The Fake Husband, A Comedy
by Flaminio Scala and Rosalind Kerr
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0866986286 | 193 Pages | True PDF | 4.52 MB

Free Download Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture-and the Magic That Makes It Work (Audiobook)
English | November 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0CL1JZ86B | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 21m | 511 MB
Author and Narrator: Jesse David Fox
"Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before." (Seth Meyers)
"A sharp, loving, well written exploration and analysis of the art form that makes us smile, helps us relate, and is perpetually mysterious." (Jenny Slate)

Free Download Peter Swallow, "Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 019286856X | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 55 MB
In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period’s reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues-making Old Comedy new.

Free Download Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice edited by Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman
English | March 27, 2014 | ISBN: 1611476437, 168393072X | True EPUB | 280 pages | 3.5 MB
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women’s contributions to-and political uses of-comedy. The essays collected here demonstrate the breadth of current scholarship on gender and comedy, spanning centuries of literature and a diversity of methodologies.

Free Download Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy"
English | 2013 | pages: 526 | ISBN: 144724219X, 1447244214 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
‘Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time – the greater part of a lifetime – preparing my instruments’ The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s new translation – his life’s work and decades in the making – presents Dante’s entire epic poem in a single song. While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of The Divine Comedy in English, many have fallen short. Victorian verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same time betraying the strain on the translator’s powers of invention. For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of Heaven were no less so. In this incantatory new translation, James – defying the convention by writing in quatrains – tackles these problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole, unified, and dramatic work.

Free Download Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics by Naomi Scott
English | October 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1350248487 | True EPUB/PDF | 192 pages | 0.4/4.96 MB
In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever ‘just a joke’. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and shows that far from being mere surface-level phenomena, jokes in Greek comedy are in fact a site of poetic experimentation whose creative force expressly rivals that of serious literature.

Free Download Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera (Audiobook)
English | April 18, 2023 | ASIN: B0B4Z8M3WX | M4B@128 kbps | 7 hours | 382 MB
Author and Narrator: Jena Friedman
For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award-nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman presents a witty and insightful collection of essays on the cultural flashpoints of today.
Growing up, Jena Friedman didn’t care about being likable. And she never wanted to be a comedian, either. A child of the 90s, she wouldn’t discover her knack for the funny business until research for her college thesis led her to take an improv class in Chicago.

Free Download Dr. Anita Price Davis Ed.D., "Divine Comedy I: The Inferno: MAXNotes Literature Guide"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0878919910 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 5.9 mb
REA’s MAXnotes for Dante’s The Divine Comedy I: Inferno

Free Download Pete Holmes, "Comedy Sex God"
English | 2019 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 0062803972, ASIN: B075WT6QDK | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, part sacred quest – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the spiritual seeker – a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of standout stand-up comedian, host of the hugely successful podcast You Made It Weird, and star of HBO’s Crashing Pete Holmes.

Free Download The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08RSL869R | 2023 | 5 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Keegan-Michael Key, Elle Key
Narrator: Keegan-Michael Key, Elle Key
From the beginning of time, there have been many monumental questions that have perplexed the human race such as: Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? And… Who’s on first? In The History of Sketch Comedy, Emmy and Peabody-winning actor, writer and producer Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele, The Prom, Jingle Jangle) embarks listeners on an epic, insightful and utterly entertaining voyage through the annals of sketch comedy. Key takes us from the early flatulence jokes of Ancient Greece and the acting troupes of Europe in the 1500s, to the rise of The Second City in Chicago and his own comedy origins on the ball fields near Detroit’s 8 Mile. Equal parts masterclass, personal odyssey and virtuoso performance; Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy dissects the landmark characters, concepts and performers that pushed the boundaries and forged new ground in the comedy pantheon, and along the way reveals his own experiences of discovering and being influenced by them. Over the course of ten half-hour chapters, one of the most beloved voices of our time treats listeners to a private, millennia-spanning interpretation of sketch comedy history, from its humble past to its immodest present.