Yeni Sağ Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Anlayışının Türk Sinemasındaki İzleri: Politik Komedi Filmleri Odağında Bir Değerlendirme by Betül Sarı

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Komizm w poezji dla dzieci. Jego rola i wartość edukacyjna by Kinga Kuszak

“…The article tackles the subject of comedy in children’s literature. The author begins her reflections with a clarification of the ideas that form the focus of her narration: comedy, humour, and word play, referring to selected works on the subject. …”
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Shakespeare revisité, entre fidélité et parodie : de La Nuit des Rois à Shake de Dan Jemmett by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…It is called Shake, with a modest sub-title « around Twelfth Night », but which is indeed at the heart of the topic.Through the exploration of three themes: symmetry (of situations, of twin binarities), love’s misunderstanding, and music, I will argue that this comedy, whose title is a mix between the name of the Bard and the etymological meaning of the verb “to shake” as far as traditions are concerned, is faithful to the spirit (rather than the letter) of the Shakespearean original in a very healthy comic vein.It is not worth wondering if the spectators fully understood the meaning of this comedy in which the four actors change roles all the time: their frequent bursts of laughter clearly showed that they enjoyed the spirit of the comedy, whether they knew Twelfth Night or not.…”
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« Such sweet thunder (4.1.117) : Le trouble dans A Midsummer Night’s Dream » by François Laroque

“…By that phrase the grammarian Donatus (IVth century A.D.) explains that comedy moves from initial perturbation to final reconciliation. …”
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RUSSIAN AND LITHUANIAN TRANSLATION OF HUMOUR IN THE ANIMATED SITCOM “THE SIMPSONS” by Živilė Nemickienė, Dovilė Urbonienė, Ričardas Povilaitis

“…Created in the USA, the sitcom (an abbreviated version of the situation comedy) has always been an extremely popular genre of a television show. …”
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Mocking Andromeda in Julia Constance Fletcher’s The Fantasticks (1900) by Rebecca Nesvet

“…A particularly aloof and arch intervention in fin-de-siècle gender politics is Fletcher’s stage comedy The Fantasticks (1900). An adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s 1894 comedy Les Romanesques, The Fantasticks has attracted hardly any scholarly attention. …”
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Conflits, féminité et identités diasporiques. Le pouvoir de la représentation chez Pratibha Parmar et Gurinder Chadha by Amandine Ducray

“…Meant to make everyone laugh, Bhaji on the Beach, her first mainstream comedy, produced a reconciled, all-inclusive portrait of Britain, as did Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and Bride and Prejudice (2004) years later. …”
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“A Hollow Sham”: The Representation of War in Bernard Shaw’s Victorian Plays by Stéphane Guy

“…A fierce opponent to war prompted by passion, Bernard Shaw saw the contemporary stage as the source of the Victorians’ misconception of the battlefield. In his plays, comedy and derision debunk the warped view of fighting that flows from ideals, the thirst for revenge and an incompetent ruling class. …”
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Retourner à Tara. Revoir Gone With the Wind (réal. Victor Fleming, 1939) by Sarah Hatchuel

“…Based on studies about re-reading and Stanley Cavell’s reflections on the comedy of remarriage, but also on my own memories of seeing the film repeatedly, this essay will attempt to understand the reasons for this general re-viewing of Gone With the Wind.…”
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Un Inferno un po’ dickensiano. Dante e « Catene » di Rat-Man by Paolo Rigo

“…In this story, Dante’s universe is recognizable as the main hypotext, even if it has clearly presents a “popular” face : this aspect is obvious from the use of Dante’s most famous (but not always philologically correct) verses and from the construction of an infernal background clearly traceable back to the Comedy.…”
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Jacobean Morality and Moral Performativity in Volpone and Women Beware Women by Gül Kurtuluş

“…In Volpone, or the Fox, Ben Jonson conveys a moral message, blending the satirical comedy with the feigning death of the protagonist Volpone, who spreads the false news of his death to the legacy hunters. …”
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О морском „voyage de noce” („На «Титанике»” Михаила Зенкевича) by Elena Kulikowa

“…Zenkevich’s On the «Titanic»)” analyzes Mikhail Zenkevich’s poem about the demise of the famous ship against the background of Dante’s Divine Comedy. The author notes the Acmeist approach in Zenkevich’s description of the Titanic where the object crafted by the hands of a human creator becomes alive. …”
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Attualizzare Dante : prospettive di ricerca nei manuali di letteratura per la scuola italiana by Simone Marsi

“…The academic research on Dante Alighieri has recently focused its attention on the modernization of his works, analyzing, for example, the rewriting of Divine Comedy in pop culture (songs, comics, cinema, videogames, etc.). …”
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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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« Caminè, caminè » : l’écriture du mouvement dans L’Anconitana d’Angelo Beolco, dit Ruzante by Françoise Decroisette

“…The Anconitana, an undated comedy full of mysteries, is undoubtedly the play that most clearly demonstrates this increase in the gesture’s power. …”
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Komizm współczesnych filmów rosyjskich na warsztacie tłumacza by Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst

“…The paper concerns linguistic humour as an aesthetic-cultural category which is at the core of comedy. Linguistic material from contemporary Russian movies and their translations into Polish is analysed. …”
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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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Food Symbolism and Imagery in the Polish Translations of William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor by Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup

“…The analysis entails all Polish versions of the comedy, both its nineteenth-century renditions and contemporary post-war readings. …”
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Stand-up preaching by W. Wessels

“…I must admit that Myers engages with contemporary comedians and the theory of comedy, as far as I can discern, in the most thorough manner possible in a single book. …”
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Texte, trame, signe : les ficelles de l’art selon Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…The point is to show that beyond the personal context of its creation and through the model of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Rossetti is pushing the limits of both forms of art—painting and poetry—thereby creating a new aesthetics where text and image merge into a musical form, where the work of art is an endless dialogue of the soul with itself.…”
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