Humorous recitations
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Broader terms:Used for:- Humorous monologues
- Monologues, Humorous
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Routledge's Comic Reciter (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1867), ed. by J. E. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Recitations- The American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking, Designed for the Use of Schools (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1794), ed. by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The American Union Speaker, by John D. Philbrick (Gutenberg text)
- Burglar Bill, and Other Pieces for the Use of the Young Reciter (London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., ca. 1888), by F. Anstey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1797), by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: J. H. A. Frost et al, 1832), by Caleb Bingham
- Natural-History Plays, Dialogues and Recitations for School Exhibitions (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1885), by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Overton Reciter: Character Sketches for Recitation (tenth thousand; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell, ca. 1889), by Robert Overton, ed. by Alfred H. Miles
- The American First Class Book: or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (Boston : Charles Bowen, 1836, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
- Platform Pearls for Temperance Workers and Other Reformers: A Collection of Recitations and Other Selections for Entertainments and Public Meetings, Especially Adapted for Christian Endeavor Societies, Prohibition Clubs, Loyal Temperance Legions, Women's Christian Temperance Unions, Etc., Etc., Etc. (New York ;Toronto : Funk & Wagnall's, 1896), by Lilian M. Heath (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Distressing Dialogues (published as by Millay's "Nancy Boyd" persona; New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1924), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
- Dialogues in French and English (Adapted From a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues in French and Flemish) (EETS Extra Series #79; London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., 1900), by William Caxton, ed. by Henry Bradley
- Vices and Virtues, ed. by Ferdinand Holthausen (HTML at Michigan)
- Dialogues in French and English (Adapted From a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues in French and Flemish) (EETS Extra Series #79; London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., 1900), by William Caxton, ed. by Henry Bradley
- Lucian's Dialogues Prepared for Schools, With Short Notes in Greek (in Greek, with English introduction; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hiero, by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns (Gutenberg text)
- The Select Dialogues of Lucian; To Which is Added, A New Literal Translation in Latin, With Notes in English (in Greek, Latin, and English; New York: G. Long, 1818), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by Edward Murphy
- Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things (second edition; London: Printed for J.J. and P. Knapton, et al., 1733), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by N. Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
- Imaginary Conversations (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881-1883), by Walter Savage Landor, contrib. by John Forster
- first series (Classical dialogues): page images at Google; US access only
- second series (Sovereigns and statesmen): page images at Google; US access only
- third series (Literary men): page images at Google; US access only
- fourth series (More literary men, famous women, miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
- fifth series (More miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
- Imaginary Conversations (with notes; 6 volumes; London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Walter Savage Landor, ed. by Charles G. Crump, contrib. by John Forster
- Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, by Walter Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames de Degré en Degré (in French), by Christine de Pisan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Heavenly Discourse (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, contrib. by Floyd Dell, illust. by Art Young and Hugo Gellert (page images at HathiTrust)
- 1601 (with commentary), by Mark Twain (HTML at archive.org)
- 1601, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
- The Overton Reciter: Character Sketches for Recitation (tenth thousand; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell, ca. 1889), by Robert Overton, ed. by Alfred H. Miles
- Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Insults: A Practical Anthology of Scathing Remarks and Acid Portraits (New York: Greystone Press, c1941), by Max J. Herzberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), ed. by Carolyn Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
- Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (PDF page images at MSU)
- Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous (1773), by Tim Bobbin, illust. by Thomas Sanders (page images at NIH)
- Books and Bookmen, by Ian Maclaren (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Adventures of Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (Albany: R. H. Pease, ca. 1850), contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Every Body's Album (partial serial archives)
- Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)
- Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious (New York: Moffat, Yard and company, 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Cynthia Willett and Julie A. Willett (HTML and PDF with commentary at umn.edu)
- Clowns and Jokers Can Heal Us: Comedy and Medicine (Berkeley et al.: UC Medical Humanities Consortium, c2011), by Albert Howard Carter (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Circle of Anecdote and Wit: A Choice Collection of Pieces of Humour, including Many Never Before Printed (while credited to Colman on the title page, disowned by him; London: J. Williams, 1826), contrib. by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Democritus Ridens: Sive, Campus Recreationum Honestarum, Cum Exorcismo Melancholiae (in Latin, anonymously published but attributed to Lange; Augusburg: I. J. Loteri, 1754), by Johann Peter Lange
- The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms (London: R. Bentley, 1851), ed. by Catherine Sinclair
- Mélanges d'Histoire et de Litterature: Recueillis par M. de Vigneul-Marville (3 volumes in French; Rotterdam: E. Yvans, 1700-1702), by Bonaventure d' Argonne
- One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)
- The Treasury of Wit, With Comic Engravings (London: Printed for T. Allman, 1836) (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
- College Humor, 1920-1921: Being a Digest of Humor Appearing in the College Humorous Publications and The Collegiate World, the National College Magazine (Chicago: Collegate World Pub. Co., c1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yale Fun: A Book of College Humor in Poetry, Pictures and Prose, Chosen With Loving Care From the Yale Record of the Past Eight Years, Conceived in the Sanctum, Founded on Foam, and Dedicated to the Humorous Faculty (Hartford: R. S. Peck, c1901), ed. by Wells S. Hastings, Brian Hooker, and Henry S. Ely (page images at HathiTrust)
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