The Cultural History of Comedy: a multi-component output consisting of 1 edited volume (vol. 6: The Modern Age); an introduction and 1 authored chapter (Chapter 5: The Body) within vol 6; and 1 authored chapter (Chapter 5: The Body) within vol 1 (Antiquity).
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De Montfort University
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- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
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- This multi-component output is a collection of critical work on a related topic that address different aspects of a single project and are collectively greater than the sum of their parts
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- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- A Cultural History of Comedy, is the first series of its kind to explore the various manifestations of comedy, its use in religion, theatre and literature, and its historical and philosophical significance across a period of 2500 years. It addresses the following questions: how has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it tell us about how society has changed? As such the series has no competitors.
Volume 6: The Modern Age covers a period from the beginning of the 1920s to the present day and draws together scholars from theatre studies, sociology, communication studies, film studies and television studies. Peacock’s editorship of this volume and her considerable contribution to it represent an important milestone in addressing the often-ignored area of physical comedy and its cultural context. Peacock commissioned and edited the eight chapters, wrote the introduction (9700 words) and contributed a chapter (9000 words). The introduction provides a wide-ranging analysis of the way in which comedic forms have proliferated during the 20th and 21st centuries. Whilst in Chapter 5 Peacock offers a significantly original and interdisciplinary consideration of the importance of physical comedy. This chapter resonates with the chapter on the body in Volume 1 – Antiquity in which Peacock offers a detailed analysis of playtexts, existing sources and contemporary commentary to propose conclusions about the way the actor’s body contributed to the comedy in the plays of Aristophanes, Menander, Terence and Plautus. This 10,000 word chapter offers some perceptive historical detective work to offer insight into the nature of comic performance in Greek and Roman Theatre, an area of consideration which is rarely examined by classicists.
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