Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a

This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlighten

How has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it t

The first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age In some portrait

Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E. Bandmann and his global theatrical circuit in the early twentieth century.