Modern Laughter

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Compares late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century satire with that of the late twentieth and early twenty-first. Authors such as Lord Rochester, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Mart Montagu, Alexander Pope, and John Gay are studied alongside comedians such as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers, George Carlin, Lewis CK, Sarah Silverman, and Amy Schumer. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.