Ned Ward and Laughter at the end of the Seventeenth Century
Preparatory reading: Quentin Skinner, 'Why laughing mattered in the Renaissance', History of Political Thought, 22/3 (2001); Jan Bremner and Herman Roodenburg (eds), A Cultural History of Humour (1997), introduction.
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Date: 19 January 2017, 17:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2017)