What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation ofcomic forms theories and techniques tracing the historical definitions ofcomedy fr... » 

What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation ofcomic forms theories and techniques tracing the historical definitions ofcomedy from Aristotle to Chris Morriss Brass Eye via Wilde and Hancock. Ratherthan attempting to produce a totalising definition of the comic this volumefocuses on the significance of comic events through study of varioustheoretical methodologies including deconstruction psychoanalysis and gendertheory and provides case studies of a number of themes ranging from the dragact to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin. «