One tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made a significant contribution to »popular« history since around 1800. This volume offers case studies on history and humour in Britain and the US from 1800 to the present, discussing various historical topics, actors and events from the Middle Ages to the recent past.

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Cover History and Humour British and American Perspectives
Contents
History and Humour Charting the Field
The Persistent Regency: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Illustrated Comic Literature
Richard Doyle’s Comic Histories: A Victorian Look at the Middle Ages
History ›from below‹ Stanley Holloway’s Monologues for the Variety Stage
Merrying the Monarch: Charles II in Historical Comedies (1800 to the Present)
On Boots, Beef, and Blackadder: The Comic Historiography of the Duke of Wellington
We ARE Amused! The Comical Uses and Historical Abuses of Queen Victoria’s Infamous Reproach ›We are not amused‹
The Old World and the New: Negotiating Past, Present, and Future in Anglo-American Humour, 1880-1900
›There Wont Be Inny Show Tonite‹: Humoring the Returns of Scopic Violence in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus
Geoff Hurst’s Ball: Popular Tabloids and Humour on the Dark Side
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