Peter Dickinson is professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Anne Higgins is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Diana Solomon is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Paul Matthew St. Pierre is professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Sean Zwagerman is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsPreface000Regina BarrecaIntroduction: Dorothy Parker’s HeadachePeter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean ZwagermanPart I: Histories, Politics and FormsLaughing AphroditeLaurie O’HigginsComedy in Ancient Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain the Jokes without Killing Them?Barbara GoldMary and Her SistersAnne HigginsFeminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle AgesLisa PerfettiLaugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd Controlin Margaret Cavendish’s Dramatic Prologues and EpiloguesDiana Solomon Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic PhenomenonLinda MorrisPart II: Approaches, Texts and AudiencesThe Business of British BurlesqueJacky BrattonThe Comic

Peter Dickinson is professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Anne Higgins is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Diana Solomon is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Paul Matthew St. Pierre is professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Sean Zwagerman is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsPreface000Regina BarrecaIntroduction: Dorothy Parker’s HeadachePeter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean ZwagermanPart I: Histories, Politics and FormsLaughing AphroditeLaurie O’HigginsComedy in Ancient Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain the Jokes without Killing Them?Barbara GoldMary and Her SistersAnne HigginsFeminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle AgesLisa PerfettiLaugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd Controlin Margaret Cavendish’s Dramatic Prologues and EpiloguesDiana Solomon Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic PhenomenonLinda MorrisPart II: Approaches, Texts and AudiencesThe Business of British BurlesqueJacky BrattonThe Comic

Peter Dickinson is professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Anne Higgins is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Diana Solomon is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Paul Matthew St. Pierre is professor of English at Simon Fraser University.Sean Zwagerman is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsPreface000Regina BarrecaIntroduction: Dorothy Parker’s HeadachePeter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean ZwagermanPart I: Histories, Politics and FormsLaughing AphroditeLaurie O’HigginsComedy in Ancient Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain the Jokes without Killing Them?Barbara GoldMary and Her SistersAnne HigginsFeminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle AgesLisa PerfettiLaugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd Controlin Margaret Cavendish’s Dramatic Prologues and EpiloguesDiana Solomon Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic PhenomenonLinda MorrisPart II: Approaches, Texts and AudiencesThe Business of British BurlesqueJacky BrattonThe Comic