History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) - With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan, 1832-1915
English
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HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR
WITH AN
INTRODUCTION UPON ANCIENT HUMOUR.
BY THE
REV. A. G. L'ESTRANGE,
AUTHOR OF
"THE LIFE OF THE REV. WILLIAM HARNESS,"
"FROM THE THAMES TO THE TAMAR,"
ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1878.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
| PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. |
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| Subjective Character of the Ludicrous—The Subject little |
| Studied—Obstacles to the Investigation—Evanescence—Mental |
| Character of the Ludicrous—Distinction between |
| Humour and the Ludicrous | 1 |
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| INTRODUCTION. |
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| PART I. |
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| ORIGIN OF HUMOUR. |
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| Pleasure in Humour—What is Laughter?—Sympathy—First |
| Phases—Gradual Development—Emotional Phase—Laughter of |
| Pleasure—Hostile Laughter—Is there any sense of the |
| Ludicrous in the Lower Animals?—Samson—David—Solomon |
| —Proverbs—Fables | 13 |
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| PART II. |
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| GREEK HUMOUR. |
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| Birth of Humour—Personalities—Story of Hippocleides—Origin |
| of Comedy—Archilochus—Hipponax—Democritus, |
| the Laughing Philosopher—Aristophanes—Humour |
| of the Senses—Indelicacy—Enfeeblement of the Drama—Humorous |
| Games—Parasites, their Position and Jests—Philoxenus—Diogenes—Court |
| of Humour—Riddles—Silli | 52 |
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| PART III. |
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| ROMAN HUMOUR. |
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| Roman Comedy—Plautus—Acerbity—Terence—Satire—Lucilius |
| —Horace—Humour of the Cæsar Family—Cicero—Augustus—Persius |
| —Petronius—Juvenal—Martial—Epigrammatist—Lucian—Apuleius |
| —Julian the Apostate—The Misopogon—Symposius' Enigmas |
| —Macrobius—Hierocles and Philagrius | 99 |
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| ENGLISH HUMOUR. |
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| CHAPTER I. |
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| MIDDLE AGES. |
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| Relapse of Civilization in the Middle Ages—Stagnation of |
| Mind—Scarcity of Books—Character of reviving Literature—Religious |
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