... such as ‘“They”’, ‘Mrs Bathurst’, the farces, and the Puck volumes. It suggests that Kipling’s concern with the build-up to and prosecution of the First World War resulted in a dearth of complex work after 1904; and that the disastrous nature of the war, and Kipling’s grief and increasing sense...

... that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Delving into an enormous archive of comic novels, jestbooks, farces, variety shows, and cartoons, the author finds a vast repository of jokes about cripples, blind men, rape, and wife-beating. Epigrams about...

... Long Huey Notorious film Red Fascism Warren Robert Penn Betrayed film Face in the Crowd A film Griffith Andy House on Carroll Street The film Munich Conference Taps film Born Yesterday film Dietrich Marlene farce Great Dictator The Chaplin Hogan’s Heroes television series Holliday Judy...

...The comedies, farces, and romances composed during the Tudor period continue to invite audiences to reflect upon the politics of popular representation in the same way that jest books, ballads, cony-catching pamphlets, and prose narratives did for an evolving publishing market in the sixteenth...