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قراءة كتاب History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
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History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
الصفحة رقم: 1
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. | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| INTRODUCTION. | |
| PART I. | |
| ORIGIN OF HUMOUR. | |
| 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 |
| PART II. | |
| GREEK HUMOUR. | |
| 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 |
| PART III. | |
| ROMAN HUMOUR. | |
| 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 |
| ENGLISH HUMOUR. | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| MIDDLE AGES. | |
| Relapse of Civilization in the Middle Ages—Stagnation of | |
| Mind—Scarcity of Books—Character of reviving Literature—Religious | |
| Writings—Fantastic Legends—Influence | |
| of the Crusades—Romances—Sir Bevis of Hamptoun—Prominence | |
| of the Lower Animals—Allegories | 161 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Anglo-Saxon Humour—Rhyme—Satires against the Church—The | |
| Brunellus—Walter Mapes—Goliardi—Piers the | |
| Ploughman—Letters of Obscure Men—Erasmus—The | |
| Praise of Folly—Skelton—The Ship of Fools—Doctour | |
| Doubble Ale—The Sak full of Nuez—Church Ornamentation—Representations | |
| of the Devil | 179 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Origin of Modern Comedy—Ecclesiastical Buffoonery—Jougleurs | |
| and Minstrels—Court Fools—Monks' Stories—The | |
| "Tournament of Tottenham"—Chaucer—Heywood—Roister | |
| Doister—Gammer Gurton | 211 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Robert Greene—Friar Bacon's Demons—The "Looking | |
| Glasse"—Nash and Harvey | 231 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Donne—Hall—Fuller | 243 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Shakespeare—Ben Jonson—Beaumont and Fletcher—The | |
| Wise Men of Gotham | 250 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Jesters—Court of Queen Elizabeth—James I.—The | |
| "Counterblasts to Tobacco"—Puritans—Charles II. | |
| —Rochester—Buckingham—Dryden—Butler | 271 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Comic Drama of the | |