Comedy

Andrew Stott tackles the question of comedy through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques, tracing the historical definitions of comedy from Aristotle to Chris Morris's Brass Eye via Wilde and Hancock. This volume focuses on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin.Stott, Andrew is the author of 'Comedy', published 2005 under ISBN 9780415299329 and ISBN 0415299322.