Publications

Publication details [#40590]

Bowers, Frederick and Paul S. Smith. 2004. Wit, humor, and Elizabethan coping: Sir John Harington and The Metamorphosis of Ajax. Humor 17 (3) : 181–218.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical explanation | humor | political system

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This study analyzes and discusses Sir John Harington’s comical innovations in language and action, which both comment on the Elizabethan political world and provide relief from that distressing world.