Comedy
21L.021 · Literature · Undergraduate · Spring 2022
Dr. Wyn Kelley
<p>Comedy, that most elastic literary and performance mode, skewers artifice, topples authority, and reverses expectations, not with the fatal outcomes of tragedy but with laughter and festivity. This class examines both deep roots and current forms of comedy, with a particular focus on comic insubordination. And food.</p> <p>We will revel in Greek, Roman, and Shakespearean drama; explore Aphra Behn’s eighteenth-century feminist rakes and sexual adventurers in <em>The Rover</em>; investigate so…
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