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Subjective Character of the Ludicrous-The Subject little
Studied-Obstacles to the Investigation-Evanescence
-Mental Character of the Ludicrous-Distinction be-
tween Humour and the Ludicrous
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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 ?-Sam-
son-David-Solomon-Proverbs-Fables
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PART II.
GREEK HUMOUR.
Birth of Humour-Personalities-Story of Hippocleides-
Origin of Comedy-Archilochus-Hipponax-Democri-
tus, 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
PART III.
ROMAN HUMOUR.
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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
ENGLISH HUMOUR.
CHAPTER I.
MIDDLE AGES.
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Relapse of Civilization in the Middle Ages-Stagnation of
Mind-Scarcity of Books-Character of reviving Litera-
ture-Religious Writings-Fantastic Legends-Influence
of the Crusades-Romances-Sir Bevis of Hamptoun-
Prominence of the Lower Animals-Allegories
CHAPTER II.
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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 Ornamen-
tation-Representations of the Devil
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Origin of Modern Comedy-Ecclesiastical Buffoonery-
Jougleurs and Minstrels-Court Fools-Monks' Stories-
The "Tournament of Tottenham"-Chaucer-Heywood
-Roister Doister-Gammer Gurton
CHAPTER IV.
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Robert Greene-Friar Bacon's Demons-The Looking
Glasse"-Nash and Harvey
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CHAPTER V.
Donne-Hall-Fuller
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CHAPTER VI.
Shakespeare-Ben Jonson-Beaumont and Fletcher-The
Wise Men of Gatham
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Counterblasts to Tobacco"-Puritans-Charles II.-
Rochester-Buckingham-Dryden-Butler .
CHAPTER VIII.
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Comic Drama of the Restoration-Etheridge-Wycher-
ley
CHAPTER IX.
Tom Brown-His Prose Works-Poetry-Sir Richard
Blackmore-D'Urfey-Female Humorists-Carey