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List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1. Crab'spedigree Richard Beadle; 2. The comedian as the character C Stephen Orgel; 3.Mixed verse and prose in Shakespearean comedy Jonas Barish; 4. Much Ado AboutNothing: the unsociable comedy Barbara Everett; 5. Laughter forgetting andShakespeare Adrian Poole; 6. Enigmatic Ben Jonson John Creaser; 7. A New Wayto Pay Old Debts: Massinger's grim comedy Martin Butler; 'Thou teachest mehumanitie': Thomas Heywood's The English Traveller Richard Rowland; 9.Etheredge's She Would If She Could: comedy complaisance and anti-climaxMichael Cordner; 10. Rhyming as comedy: body ghost and banquet Gillian Beer;11. Wordsworthian comedy Jonathan Wordsworth; 12. Apeing Romanticism JonathanBate; 13. A complete history of comic noses John Kerrigan; 14. Noel Cowardand comic geometry Peter Holland; 15. Ludwig Wittgenstein and the comedy oferrors Eric Griffiths; Index.