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• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
• Jonson's Moral Comedy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Alan C. Dessen (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• 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)
• Reply to "Remarks on Mr. Mitchell's edition of The Comedies of Aristophanes by George John Kennedy" ... (Oxford, J. H. Parker: [etc., etc.], 1841), by Thomas Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les femmes dotées au théâtre et dans le monde : depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours / (Paris : E. Lachaud, 1872), by H. Faure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scaenicae quaestiones Plautinae. Dissertatio ... ([n.p.], 1867), by Wilhelm Hahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch einer Theorie des komischen / (Leipzig : Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1817), by Johann Stephan Schütze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religious function of comedy [electronic resource] : a phase of the problem of evil, treated from the point of view of Aristotle's Poetics and Metaphysics and of spiritual monism : an essay based on a lecture delivered before the Philosophical Society of the University of Toronto, 1907 / (Toronto : W. Briggs, 1907), by John Daniel Logan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rice's comedians, direction George Peck [electronic resource] : admit one .. ([S.l. : s.n., 18--?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amateur contest Friday $5.00 prize [electronic resource] : London Opera House, London, Canada ... the rural comedy drama Rose Garland .. (London [Ont.] : Advertiser, [18--?]), by Ont.) London Opera House (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die grosse Leidenschaft : Lustspiel in drei Akten / (Wien und Leipzig : Wiener Verlag, 1905), by Raoul Auernheimer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The clown in Greek literature after Aristophanes / (Princeton : [The Falcon Press], 1913), by Charles Henry Haile (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Lachen / (Jena : Diederichs, 1914), by Henri Bergson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on comedy, (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1897), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alcune riflessioni sul teatro comico moderno. ([Padova?, pref.1823]), by Francesco Cambi (page images at HathiTrust)
• American comedies / (Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1847), by James Kirke Paulding and William I. Paulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comedy technique : an informal textbook on the art of writing and delivering comedy routines. (New York : Louis Tannen, c1951), by Robert Orben (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lustspielelemente im me. drama (bis 1500) Ein beitrag zur kenntnis des me. dramas. (Bühl, Buchdruckerei Unitas, [1913]), by Günther Wieland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• M. AccI Plauti Comoediae XX. superstites, nunc denuò, post omnium editiones, ad fidem meliorum codd. & imprimis vetustiss. mss. Camerarij, seu Camerario-Palatinorum, ut & doctiss. virorum curas accuratiùs exactae, & novis commentariis illustratae ... nùnc primum collecta & explicata producuntur: Plautina item fragmenta ... & Plauto denique supposita: / ([Wittenberg] : Apud Zachariam Schurerum, Bibliopol., Anno Domini 1612), by Titus Maccius Plautus and Friedrich Taubmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della forza comica. (In Mantova : Appresso Giuseppe Braglia .., MDCCLXXXII [1782]), by Giambattista Gherardo D'Arco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comedy, (New York, G. H. Doran Co., [1914]), by John Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on comedy, and the uses of the comic spirit, (Westminster, A. Constable and company, 1903), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on comedy, (New York C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay towards fixing the true standards of wit, humour, raillery, satire, and ridicule : to which is added, an analysis of the characters of an humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger de Coverly, and Don Quixote : inscribed to the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Orford / (London : Printed for J. Roberts and W.Bickerton, 1744), by Corbyn Morris, Roger De Coverly, John Falstaff, and William Congreve (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fair maid of Wapping : or, the doleful tale of William Taylor. Serio-comical, nautical, or what-ye-call T-P-Cookical drama of thrilling interest /, by F. C. Burnand and Montagu Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sladderhanken : comedie i een act efter Charles Maurice /, by Charles Maurice and N. T. Bruun (page images at HathiTrust)
• I︠A︡k kovbasa ta charka, to mynetsi︠a︡ svarka : komedii︠a︡ z spivamy v 1. dïï / (Kiev : Sklad' Izdania, 1902), by M. P. Staryt︠s︡ʹkyĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Commedie scelte di Camillo Federici Torinese. (Naples : [Publisher not identified], 1836), by Camillo Federici (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la comédie ... (Paris : Didier et cie; [etc., etc.], 1864-), by Edélestand Du Méril (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traité de la comedie et des spectacles : selon la tradition de l'église, tirée des conciles & des saints pères. (Paris : Billaine, 1666), by Armand de Bourbon Conti (page images at HathiTrust)
• La svpplica : discorso famigliare / (In Venezia : Per Marco Ginammi, lanno 1634), by Niccolò Barbieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Didascalia, cioé, Dottrina comica / (In Firenze : Nella stamperia nuoua, all'insegna della stella, 1658), by Girolamo Bartolomei già Smeducci (page images at HathiTrust)
• De media et nova comoedia quaestiones selectae / ([S.l.] : E. Fraenkel, 1912), by Eduard Fraenkel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit. (New York : Scribner, 1909), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit / (London : A. Constable, 1905), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comoediae / (Lipsiae : In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1874-1876), by Titus Maccius Plautus and Alfred Fleckeisen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The religious function of comedy. A phase of the problem of evil, treated from the point of view of Aristotle's Poetic's and Metaphysics and of spiritual monism. (Toronto, William Briggs, 1907), by J. D. Logan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso di Agostino Michele, in cui contra l'opinione di tutti più illustri scrittori dell'arte poetica chiaramente si dimostra : come si possono scriuere con molta lode le comedie, e le tragedie in prosa : et di molti altri precetti di cotal arte assai copiosamente si ragiona. (In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista Ciotti, 1592), by Agostino Michele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bergson's theory of the comic in the light of English comedy, (Lincoln, 1920), by Louise Mathewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schule des lustpiels. (Berlin, Theaterverlag E. Bloch, [1903]), by Walter Harlan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on comedy, and the uses of the comic spirit, (New York, Chicago [etc.] : C. Scribner's Sons, [c1918]), by George Meredith and Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to dramatic theory / (New York : Brentano's, [n.d.]), by Allardyce Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on comedy, and the uses of the comic spirit. (New York, Scribner, 1897), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mandarin coat : a comedy in one act / (New York : S. French, c1923), by Alice C. D. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lustspielelemente im me. Drama (bis 1500) : ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des me. Dramas. (Bühl (Baden) : [publisher not identified], [1913]), by Günther Wieland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur Geschichte der politischen komödie in Deutschland : vorgelegt am 11. Januar 1919 / (München : Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften : In Kommission des G. Franz'schen Verlags, 1919), by Hans Prutz and Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'avaro nella commedia; studio critico della Sig.na Cornelia Grassi; 10 novembre 1899. (Roma, Stab. tip. C. Mariani e c., 1900), by Cornelia Grassi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comédies et comédiens: feuilletons / (Paris : M. Lévy, 1866), by Pier Angelo Fiorentino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das komische und groteskkomische in schaudarstellungen verschiedener zeiten und nationen, narren- und esels-feste, närrische lustbarkeiten und lustige possen, gecken- und narren-orden, auch andere komische, weltliche und kirchliche belustigungen, (Stuttgart, J.Scheible, 1861), by Friedrich Nick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des comédiens, et du clergé; suivi de réflexions sur le mandement de monseigneur l'archevêque de Rouen ... (Paris, Chez P. Dupont, 1825), by Etienne-Félix Hénin de Cuvillers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Storia e fisiologia dell'arte di ridere. Favola--fiaba--commedia--satira--novella--prosa e poesia umoristica ... (Milano, U. Hoepli, 1900-02), by Tullo Massarani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kritiken und Gedanken über das Drama : eine Einführung in das Theater der Gegenwart / (München : G. Birk, 1915), by Rudolf Franz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A trip to Wales : a farce in two acts, (London : J. Mallett, 1826), by John Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur la comédie : de l'idée de comédie et des exemples de l'esprit comique / (Paris : Société du Mercure de France, 1898), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Des conditions de la bonne comédie ... Réponse à la question posée par l'Académie de Bordeaux: "Quels étaient l'état des moeurs et la disposition de esprits aux époques ou brilla la bonne comédie?-Des éléments analogues existent-ils aujourd'hui en France?" ... (Paris, A. Durand, 1863), by Karl Hillebrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The comic spirit in Restoration drama; studies in the comedy of Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. (New York, Russell & Russell, 1962 [c1925]), by Henry Ten Eyck Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay towards fixing the true standards of wit, humour, raillery, satire, and ridicule (1744) ([Los Angeles] Augustan Reprint Society, 1947), by Corbyn Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satire, Komik und der Roman. (Stuttgart, Scheible, Rieger & Sattler, 1842), by Karl Julius Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber das komische und die komödie. Ein beitrag zur philosophie des schönen, (Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1844), by August Wilhelm Bohtz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la comédie: periode primitive: comédie des peuples sauvages-théatre asiatique-origines de la comédie grecque. (Paris, Didier, 1864), by Édélestand Du Méril (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comédiens et amateurs; le théatre et ses dessous. (Montréal, Imprimerie du Devoir, 1919), by Eugène Lassalle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wesen und Entwicklung des komischen Dramas / (Berlin : Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1891), by Franz Bettingen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Observations sur l'art du comédien, et sur d'autres objets concernant cette profession en général...ouvrage detiné a de jeunes acteurs et actrices; (Paris [Cailleau], 1775), by Jean-Nicolas d' Hannetaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'art de la comédie : ou Détail raisonné des diverses parties de la comédie, et de ses différents genres; suivi D'un traité de l'imitation où l'on compare à leurs originaux les imitations de Molière & celles des modernes. Le tout appuyé d'emenples tirés des meilleurs comiouee de toutes les nations. Terminé par l'esposition des causes de la décadence du théâtre, & des moyens de la faire refleurir / (Paris : F.A. Didot, 1772), by M. de Cailhava (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio di commedie filosofiche / (In Faenza : Pel Benedetti impressor Vescovile ..., 1754), by Appiano Buonafede (page images at HathiTrust)
• The comic and the realistic in English drama, (Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press, [c1925]), by John Brooks Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schiller und die Komödie ... (Leipzig, J.J. Weber, 1925), by Karl Holl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on comedy, and the uses of the comic spirit, (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1905), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il libro delle confessioni; (Roma, Tip. della camera dei deputati, 1888), by Giuseppe Costetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• La epopea del buffone : studio / (Bra [Italy] : Tipografia Stefano Racca, 1893), by Ferdinando Gabotto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wesen und Entwickelung des komischen Dramas / (Berlin : Weidmann, 1891), by Franz Bettingen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les comédiens, par un comédien. (Paris, Brunox, 1883), by Constant Coquelin (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'arte del comico / (Milano : A. Paganini, 1890), by Luigi Rasi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario comico / (Roma : Tip. del Corriere dei comuni, 1885), by Parmenio Bettòli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the harlequinade. (London, M.Secker, [1915]), by Maurice Sand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In praise of comedy, a study in its theory and practice. (New York, Russell & Russell, 1962), by James Kern Feibleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The comic spirit in restoration drama: (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1925), by Henry Ten Eyck Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women & laughter in medieval comic literature / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Lisa Renée Perfetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comedy, (London, M. Secker, [1914]), by John Palmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte des grotesk-komischen; ein beitrag zur geschichte der menschheit (München, G. Müller, 1914), by Karl Friedrich Flögel and Max Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Petite comédie de la critique littéraire; ou, Molière selon trois écoles philosophiques. (Paris, M. Lévy, 1866), by Paul Stapfer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The craft of comedy, (New York, Theatre arts, inc., [1916]), by Athene Seyler and Stephen Haggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughter : an essay on the meaning of the comic / (New York : The Macmillan company, 1921), by Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, and Cloudesley Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir George Etherege, a study in restoration comedy (1660-1680) ([Cedar Rapids Ia., The Torch press], 1931), by Frances Smith Tinker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de la comédie ancienne, par m. Édélestand du Méril. (Paris, Didier et c ie; [etc., etc.], 1869), by Édélestand Du Méril (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughter : an essay on the meaning of the comic / (London : Macmillan and co. limited, 1913), by Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, and Cloudesley Brereton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discours sur la comedie: ou, Traité historique et dogmatique des jeux de théatre & des autres divertissemens comiques soufferts ou condamnés depuis le premier siécle de l'eglise jusqu'à présent. Avec un discours sur les pieces de théatre, tirées de l'Ecriture Sainte. (Paris, Chez la veuve Delaulne, 1731), by Pierre Lebrun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry, comedy, and duty, (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by Charles Carroll Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit, (London [etc.] Constable and co., 1919), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to dramatic theory, (London [etc.] G. G. Harrap & co., ltd., [1923]), by Allardyce Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der komischen litteratur. (Liegnitz und Leipzig, D. Siegert, 1784-87), by Karl Friedrich Flögel (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on comedy, and the uses of the comic spirit... (New York, Chicago [etc.] : C. Scribner's sons, [c1918]), by George Meredith and Lane Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'art de la comédie, nouv. éd. Ouvrage dédié a monsieur, (A Paris, Impr. de P.-D. Pierres, et se vend chez la veuve Ducheane [etc.], 1786), by M. de Cailhava (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughter : an essay on the meaning of the comic / (New York : The Macmillan company, 1911), by Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, and Cloudesley Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Aristotelian theory of comedy, (New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, 1922), by Lane Cooper, Aristotle. Poetics, and Paris (France). Bibliothèque nationale. MSS. grecs. Coislin 120 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masques et bouffons (comédie italienne) : texte et dessins / (Paris : Michel Lévy frères, 1860), by Maurice Sand and Alexandre Manceau (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on comedy and the uses of the comic Spirit, (Westminster, A. Constable and company, 1897), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the harlequinade, (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company; London, M. Secker, [1915]), by Maurice Sand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The nature of comedy. (Boston, R. G. Badger, [c1930]), by Willard Mallalieu Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur geschichte der Lustspieltheorie. (Berlin, E. Felber, 1911-), by Karl Holl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur Geschichte der Lustspieltheorie / (Nendeln, Liechtenstein : Kraus Reprint, 1976), by Karl Holl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arms and the man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts. (London, Constable, 1911), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Classic curiosities of dramatic literature. / (London : Athenian Society, 1904), by Alfred Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay towards fixing the true standards of wit, humour, raillery, satire, and ridicule. To which is added, an analysis of the characters of an humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger De Coverly, and Don Quixote. ([New York, AMS Press, 1972]), by Corbyn Morris and Author of A Letter from a by-stander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of comedy : for professional entertainers, social clubs, comedians, lodges and all who are in search of humorous literature ... / (Philadelphia : D. McKay, [c1899]), by J. Melville Janson (page images at HathiTrust)
• What every woman knows; a comedy. (New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1918), by J. M. Barrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry, comedy, and duty / (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Charles Carroll Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rire : essai sur la signification du comique / (Paris : F. Alcan, 1922), by Henri Bergson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principles of comedy and dramatic effect. (London, Tinsley brothers, 1870), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comedia de Rolante y Claudina [microform] : en cuatro actos. (Manila : J. Martinez, 1917), by American Philosophical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sigesmundo [microform] : buong buhay nang Principe Sigesmundo na anac nang Haring Eleno sa bayan nang Albania. (Manila : Imprenta de Quiapo, 1913), by American Philosophical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit, (Westminister, A. Constable and company, 1898), by George Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Citizens on stage : comedy and political culture in the Athenian democracy / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2002), by James F. McGlew (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744), by Corbyn Morris, contrib. by James L. Clifford (Gutenberg ebook)

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