Don L. F Nilsen Livres

Exploring the evolution of humor in British literature from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, this book highlights key figures such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Congreve. It examines how humor manifested in various forms, including storytelling, vernacular comedy, and the Comedy of Manners. Each chapter focuses on a specific century, detailing individual authors and their contributions to the role of humor in literature, along with comprehensive bibliographies for further study.

This book explores how humor can be explained, in order to aid communication. Accessible to a wide readership of not only students and teachers of language and linguistics, but also those in related disciplines to which the understanding and use of humor is relevant, such as literature, psychology, anthropology, and the performing arts.