Dandiacal Conversation in Oscar Wilde’s Comedies of Manners: Conventions, Conversions and Reconfigurations of Phallogocentrism by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…Wilde’s comedies of manners stage dandies enjoying relative freedom in the parlours, ballrooms and reception halls where the scenes usually take place. …”
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Bed-trick and forced marriages. Shakespeare’s distortion of romantic comedy motifs in Measure for Measure by Frédérique Fouassier

“…One of the most blatant consequences of the distortion of romantic comedy motifs in Measure for Measure is the disempowerment of female characters: at the conclusion of the play, they are violently levelled out, at the lowest possible level: they all become Kate Keepdowns.…”
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La divine comédie dans les Andes ou les tribulations du mort dans son voyage vers l’au-delà by Valérie Robin Azevedo

“…The Andean divine comedy or the tribulations of the soul in its voyage to the hereafter. …”
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alchimia dall’inferno al paradiso nella divina commedia. l’influsso su dante dell’opera alchemica aurora consurgens, parzialmente attribuita a san tommaso d’aquino by Marino Alberto Balducci

“…The symbolic vision of a terrible epidemic, affecting the deep infernal zones, appears in the Divine Comedy associated with the wrong, fraudulent, and arrogant use of alchemical science (Inf. …”
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“There she was, looking at me with those eyes of her”: l’animal mis en regard dans le théâtre d’Edward Albee by Valentine Vasak

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THE GROTESQUENESS IN VIETNAMESE FOLK JOKES by Quoc Minh Duong Dang

“… Grotesqueness exploits laughter, exaggeration, and unusual contrasts between the imaginary and the real, beauty and ugliness, tragedy and comedy. Grotesqueness is prevalent in folk jokes, especially in tales about gluttony, henpecked husbands, and sexual desire. …”
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Newman’s Poetry: The Heart of a Victorian Renaissance Project  by Dampi Somoko

“…This is particularly true of the poetic dream in The Dream of Gerontius, which borrows characteristics from both the anonymous Old English poem The Dream of the Rood and Dante’s Divine Comedy. This creative recourse to old literary and aesthetic sources as an inspiration is marked by porosity, hybridity, and subversion when the mutation of the character takes place in a gradual process from de-personification to kenosis. …”
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Real Person Fanfiction and the Construction of the (Un)Ethical Fan by Lauren Balser

“…Though RPF remains a staple of fandom, the fans that write and read it are often moralised for their alleged misunderstanding of what constitutes a fictional character. Consequently, much of RPF studies focuses on fans’ construction of the celebrity persona. …”
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What lies beyond and within humour: A relevance-theoretic approach to propositional meanings in the sitcom Modern Family by Magdalena Wieczorek

“…The corpus is drawn from the American situation comedy Modern Family (2009-2020), created by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. …”
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Parody, Controversy, Commercial Opportunity: Samuel Foote’s The Minor (1760) and Its Reception by Pierre Labrune

“…This article studies Samuel Foote’s comedy The Minor, created in 1760, and the controversy it provoked. …”
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Mel et sal. Suavité et sévérité de la voix dans Twelfth Night by François Laroque

“…Shakespeare’s comedy thus presents itself like an acoustic maze where identities and genres get blurred. …”
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SUPERNATURALISM AND MYSTICISM IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY HAMLET by Muharrani Nurmalasari, Ruly Adha

“…He produces two types of plays, namely comedy which usually talks about love and tragedy which talks about sadness. …”
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Plautus’ Casina and its uses in General Education-Level Gender History by Terrance L. Lewis

“…Since Casina was based on an Athenian New Comedy play (The Lot-Castors by Diphilus), it incorporates elements of late fourth/early third century BCE Athenian ideas on gender, gender roles, and sexuality as well as Republican Roman views on these same areas from approximately a century later. …”
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Parodies de dandies : travestissement et transgression des genres au music-hall by Catherine Rovera

“…It is also poles apart from slapstick comedy and the dames and principal boys of the Drury Lane pantomimes, as it blurs the line between the genders. …”
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The French Actor on the London Stage: Charles Fechter by Catherine Quirk

“…He began his stage career in Paris, first achieving success in amateur circles before joining the Comédie Française. Having taught himself more or less fluent English, he returned to London in 1860, performing at the Princess’s before taking over the lease of the Lyceum in 1862. …”
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Lieux et milieux dans le Théâtre de Béziers (XVIIe siècle) by Jean-François Courouau

“…Domestics, numerous in comedies, include rakish valets and loose chambermaids. …”
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