The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde: Conformity and Resistance in Victorian Society by Brigitte Bastiat

“…For example, the “Théâtre Antoine” in Paris produced it in October 2006 (on tour until March 2008) and a Versailles company performed it at “Le Lucernaire” in September and October 2008.When first performed, the play was considered as a light comedy and classified as entertainment for Victorian society. …”
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L’agonie de Raimundo, fils d’Unamuno, et le sentiment comique de la vie by Yves Roullière

“…In contrast, this study will attempt to show that Raimundo's traumatic and hard existence had a decisive influence on the main aspects of Unamuno's work: philosophical, mystical, poetic and fictional, particularly in his approach to tragedy and comedy, sentiment and love.…”
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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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Camping it out in the Never Never: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinity in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) by Anne Le Guellec-Minel

“…Yet the film takes the consensual optimism of the glitter comedy further back to the societal and geographical margins of Australia. …”
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Arcadia (1993) de Tom Stoppard : la passion du bilan by Nicole Boireau

“…Stoppard combines the comedy of manners form with the whodunit to build a trompe-l’œil play, based on a dual time structure, involving both literary figures from the past and present-day intellectuals, who try to work out the enigmas at the heart of the play. …”
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Representing Irishness in Words and Images ; Erskine Nicol’s Illustrations of Tales of Irish Life and Character by Amélie Dochy

“…We will also dwell on the mechanisms of humour in both the text and the paintings and examine how, by resorting to comedy verging on caricature, Nicol creates characters who were deemed as “typical” by the Victorian public while offering a subjective definition of Irish identity.…”
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Politique tragique vs. politique comique ? Richard III de Shakespeare et A Game at Chess de Middleton by Clotilde Thouret

“…Thus, perhaps one could say that if Richard III is situated upstream of history, Middleton's satirical comedy is situated downstream of it.…”
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Multimodal Adaptation, Reconstruction, and Deviation of Immortal Ones by Xinzuo Li

“…For this reason, the novel has been adapted into different multimedia versions. The animated comedy Monkey King (2023), produced by Netflix, is one of the recent but less satisfactory examples, in which the images of immortals are reconstructed in a multimodal manner suffering from adaptational deviation. …”
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“When the bear won't go hunt”: masculinity in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Jean-Louis CLARET

“…The haunting figures of Narcissus and Echo find a strange echo in the main characters who prove particularly resilient and clearly subservient to the structural requirements of the comedy. Twelfth Night invents new polarities that, like some of the characters, are not what they are.…”
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Dynamitage cocasse de l’anthropomorphisme dans quelques satires contemporaines by Laetitia Pasquet

“…The satirical prism is thus replaced by an uncanny, awkward form of comedy that no longer claims to convey a meaning and cause spectators to smile reassuringly, for spectators are no longer at the top of God’s creation. …”
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Pink Stockings, Yellow Stockings: the Use of Pink-Yellow in Marston and Shakespeare by Anita BUTLER

“…John Marston (c. 1576-1634), William Shakespeare’s younger contemporary, wrote plays such as The Malcontent (c. 1604) that are performed today: his satirical comedy What You Will (published 1607) is not one of these. …”
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Popularizing Electoral Politics: Change in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race by Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters

“…The issue also takes a closer look at specific expressions of popular culture as reflected in the media, specifically in relation to the rise of nativism and the alt-right movement, the political impact of comedy on the election, and the significance of memes in the battle over image and meaning-making. …”
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Extension du champ télécinématographique de la science-fiction. The Mandalorian (Disney+) by Hannedouche Cédric

“…Science fiction is being developed, questioned or more massively rewritten here from other popular genres (western, soap, family comedy, etc.). These series are therefore part of a process of renewal of the genre by upsetting serial standardization (unequal duration of episodes, varied tones, creation of new narrative arcs, etc.) and in turn pose themselves as laboratories of science fiction telecine to come. …”
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An interpersonal pragmatic perspective on seductive discourse by Jim O’DRISCOLL

“…Following a brief account of these concepts, and the interpersonal pragmatic perspective more generally, the demonstration of the above claims is achieved through the analysis of three very different cases: an excerpt from a TV comedy, a (generic) academic conference presentation and a (particular) incident during a rugby match.…”
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No-Way Out: Being Entrapped in Wedlock Plays of Alan Ayckbourn: How the Other Half Loves and The Garden by Eda Bayrakçı

“…Alan Ayckbourn using traditional devices of farcical comedy can be depicted as a farceur, yet via breaking the conventions, How the Other Half Loves and The Garden turn into a tragedy of the married who became victims within their dissatisfactory marriage. …”
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„Anwärter auf die Hölle“: Stepan Trofimowitsch und die Menippea der Pharisäer by Ruth Karin Lévai

“…Whereas Bakhtin believed that, “The Menippean forms are based on man’s inability to know and contain his fate,” the case of the Pharisees in the Gospels was a bit more complex. The serio-comedy of the Pharisees was created by the ability of the God-man to know and contain their fate. …”
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Intentional Manipulations? A Further Analysis of Selected English-Yoruba Humorous Translations by Ibukunolu Isaac Olodude

“…It concludes that humorous translations are often used by comedians who intentionally manipulate the translations of certain texts for the purpose of comedy. …”
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Freedom of Expression: what lessons should we learn from US experience? by Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

“…Many courts are also imposing high compensation damages that are challenging the “right to ridicule” in comedy shows and newspapers cartoons. The Brazilian public opinion in general tends to be sympathetic to more restrictive rules that may threaten freedom of expression in Brazil. …”
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Fostering toleration in secondary school students through Enlightenment philosophical tales by Matt Sharpe

“…Such an ‘expanded’ enlightened mindset as these texts foster through engaging readers in their stories and comedy, we propose, remains at the heart of educating our students to be good citizens in multi-faith, post-Enlightenment societies.…”
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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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