# Defining Comedy, Vol. 1

By **David Ellis**

- ISBN-13: 9780718898601
- Publisher: Lutterworth Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 200
- Published: 30 Jul 2026

## About this book

From the time of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers and psychologists, along with experts from the social sciences and linguistics, have made vain attempts to formulate a general theory of comedy. Passing in review all the usual suspects, including Hobbes, Kant and Bergson, as well as several recent theorists of comedy

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