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Literature and Humor  
Humor from a variety of perspectives. Classical and medieval traditions of comedy--including Plautus's plays, early modern feasts of fools, and Erasmus's In Praise of Folly--that influence the twentieth century. Soviet and Russian traditions of joke telling, Mark Twain, and the musical theater of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Program 1
  Participants
Svetlana Boym
Natalie Zemon Davis
James Tatum

 

 
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