The Comedy of Dave Chappelle: Critical Essays By K. A. Wisniewski
2009 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 0786441887 | PDF | 2 MB
Perhaps best known for his highly acclaimed, short-lived Comedy Central program Chappelle's Show, Dave Chappelle is widely regarded as one of today's most culturally significant comedians. Through the sketch comedy show and his stand-up act, Chappelle has offered truly memorable commentary on racial and ethnic tensions in American society. This book assembles 13 essays that examine motifs common in Chappelle's comedy, including technology and digital culture; race, gender, and ethnicity; economics and politics; music, television, film, and performance; and memory, language, and identity.

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages (The Cultural Histories) edited by Martha Bayless
English | December 30, 2021 | ISBN: 1350000728, 1350187615 | True PDF | 232 pages | 2.4 MB
Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer, Boccaccio, Juan Ruiz, and Hrothswitha of Gandersheim, as well as lesser-known works and genres, such as songs of insult, nonsense-texts, satirical church paintings, topical jokes, and obscene pilgrim badges. The analysis touches on most of the literatures of medieval Europe, including a discussion of the formal attitudes toward humor in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. The volume demonstrates the many ways in which medieval humor could be playful, casual, sophisticated, important, subversive, and even dangerous.

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age (The Cultural Histories) edited by Andrew McConnell Stott
English | December 30, 2021 | ISBN: 1350000736 | True PDF | 256 pages | 2.6 MB
Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the entertainment industry, the rise of the professional comedian, extended commentaries on the nature of comedy and laughter, and the development of printed jestbooks. It was the prime site from which to satirize a rapidly-changing world and explore the formation of new social relations around questions of gender, authority, identity, and commerce, amongst others. Yet even as it reacted to the novel and the new, comedy also served as a receptacle for the celebration of older social rituals such as May games and seasonal festivities. The result was a complex and contested mix of texts, performances, and concepts providing a deep tradition that abides to this day.

A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity (The Cultural Histories) edited by Michael Ewans
English | December 30, 2021 | ISBN: 135000071X | True PDF | 227 pages | 1.8 MB
Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of Graeco-Roman culture from around 486 BCE to the mid first century BCE. It explores the range of comedies during this period, which were fictional dramas that engaged with the political and social concerns of ancient society, and also at times with mythology and tragedy.

The Divine Comedy 3: Paradise by Dante Alighieri
English | MP3@192 kbps | 4h 55m | 405.2 MB
Dante Alighieri's journey continues in the third part of "The Divine Comedy". Opposite to the main subject in the previous two parts, "Paradiso" depicts virtues and not sins as it represents the soul's ascent to God. Dante's journey goes through the nine spheres of Heaven, associated with nine different virtues such as Justice, Faith, Love. Which is the last stage of Dante's journey and what will it bring to his soul?

Humble Pi A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker | 23.81 MB
English | 336 Pages

Title: Humble Pi
Author: Parker, Matt
Year: 1900

Angel War: An Urban Fantasy Comedy by Savage Tempest
English | MP3@192 kbps | 1h 00m | 83.6 MB
Would you know an angel if you saw one?

Martin T. Dinter, "The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0521173884, 1107002109 | PDF | pages: 434 | 2.4 mb
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of Roman comedy by examining its literary and comic technique as well as its stagecraft and music, and then traces the genre's influence through the centuries. Roman comedy has served as a model for writers as well as artists ranging from Shakespeare to Molière and from Martin Luther to Cole Porter. Just as the Middle Ages spawned Christianised versions of Terence's comedies, in which harlots find God rather than a husband and young men become martyrs rather than never-do-well lovers, the twentieth century has also given us its take on Roman comedy with Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and numerous modern versions of Plautus' Amphitryon.