The Comic Spirit: Critical Essays on Comic Literature and Film

This publication presents juried undergraduate articles analyzing comic literature and film for modern relevance: from Apuleius' "The Golden Ass," Plautus' "The Haunted House," various stories in Boccaccio's "The Decameron," Moliere's Tartuffe, Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," and more. Volume one speaks less to comic authors' techniques, and more to everyday people's foibles in love, life, and marriage. The articles selected for publication all aim at how modern readers can discover useful applications from the classic material.