A Cultural History Of Humour

This text explores humour through the ages, from jokes and stage humour in Greece and Rome to the jestbooks of early-modern Europe, from practical jokes in Rena... » 

This text explores humour through the ages, from jokes and stage humour in Greece and Rome to the jestbooks of early-modern Europe, from practical jokes in Renaissance Italy to comic painting during the Dutch Golden Age, from Bakhtin's conception of laughter to the joking of anthropologists. «