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• Comic literature
• Literature, Comic

• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
• The Dramatic Values in Plautus (1918), by Wilton W. Blancké (Gutenberg text)
• Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)
• Retractatio in the Ambrosian and Palatine Recensions of Plautus: A Study of the Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Stichus and Trinummus (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1911), by Cornelia Catlin Coulter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jonson's Moral Comedy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Alan C. Dessen (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Apuntes para la Historia de la Caricatura (in Spanish; 1877), by Jacinto Octavio Picón (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), by Thomas Wright, illust. by F. W. Fairholt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)
• A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), by Thomas Wright, illust. by F. W. Fairholt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Wits, or, Sport Upon Sport (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932), ed. by John James Elson, contrib. by Robert Cox and Francis Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)

• Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)

• Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1914), by A. E. W. Mason
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts, by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', trans. by Thomas Seltzer (Gutenberg text)

• Tom Cobb (with commentary), by W. S. Gilbert (multimedia at Gilbert and Sullivan Archive)

• The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston (Gutenberg text)
• Where There's a Will, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text)
• Where There's a Will (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by F. Vaux Wilson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Edward L. Chase (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Time of Roses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Lake of Fire (New York: C. Kendall, c1933), by Lionel Houser, illust. by Steele Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Cinema Murder, by E. Phillips Oppenheim (Gutenberg text)
• The Cinema Murder (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1917), by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Of Dramatic Poesie, by John Dryden (HTML at Toronto)
• Plays, Movies, and Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Jody McAuliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)

• Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliography of Dramatic Literature (La Jolla, CA: World Drama Prompters, c1915), ed. by H. N. Clugston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Viewpoints in Modern Drama: An Arrangement of Plays According to Their Essential Interest (Chicago: American library association, 1925), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c1996), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, 1984), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Three Tragedies: Bertram; Bellamira; The Apostate (London:, 1818), by Charles Robert Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists (Philadelphia: Pub. for the Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library, 1955), by Fredson Bowers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
• The Scene is Changed (c1942), by Ashley Dukes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1910), by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (Gutenberg text)
• A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual Magazine Subject-Index (including a dramatic index for most years) (partial serial archives)

• The Drama (partial serial archives)
• The Dramatic Index (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société des Historiens du Théâtre (in French) (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.