International Studies in Humour

Volume 4, Issue 2 (2015)                        ISSN 2052-3475

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EDITORIAL:

Introducing an Issue about Humour in the Classics

Ephraim Nissan, London                              [editorial]  (p. 1)

REVIEW ESSAY:

THE CLASSICS:

Doing Justice to Plautus, a Master of Comedy, a Master of Wordplay.

 (About: Michael Fontaine, Funny Words in Plautine Comedy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.)

Ephraim Nissan, London                              [full paper]  (pp. 2–89)

Keywords:  Plautus; Roman comedy; Greek comedy; Wordplay.

With an Appendix: The Progeny of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1861 Painting Phryne

                               before the Areopagus: Bernhard Gillam’s and Joseph

                               Keppler’s Tattooed Man 1884 Cartoons.

Keywords:  Political cartoons (19th century); America (1884 U.S. presidential campaign); James G. Blaine; Puck.

RESPONSE ESSAY:

THE CLASSICS:

‘Hahahae’: Listening for Roman Laughter. Thoughts on Mary Beard, Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2014.

Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr                              [full paper]  (pp. 90–95)

Keywords:  Humour or laughter in ancient Rome.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Clustered in this volume under the rubrics:

·         The Classics

·         Miscellanea

THE CLASSICS:

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up, by Mary Beard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).

Edwin Rabbie, Rotterdam                             [review]  (pp. 96–98)

Keywords:  Humour in ancient Rome.

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up, by Mary Beard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).

Maria Plaza, Stockholm                              [review]  (pp. 99–101)

Keywords:  Humour in ancient Rome.

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy, edited by Michael Fontaine and Adele C. Scafuro (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Ephraim Nissan, London                             [review]  (pp. 102–115)

Keywords:  Greek comedy; Roman comedy.

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction, by Stefan Tilg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.)

Ephraim Nissan, London                             [review]  (pp. 116–118)

Keywords:  Apuleius, Humour in ancient Rome.

MISCELLANEA:

Andrew Goatly, Meaning and Humour, by Andrew Goatly

(Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Christie Davies, Reading, England            [review]  (p. 119)

Keywords:  Semantics; Sociology of humour.