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Richard Brome Richard Brome
Richard Brome , c.1590-1652, English dramatist. He was the friend, servant, and disciple of Ben Jonson. Primarily a writer of realistic satiric comedy, picturing the life and manners of Caroline bourgeois London, he also produced several tragicomedies, but with much less success. The main features... Read more
humor humor
humor according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined human health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was achieved through a balance of... Read more
Agnes Repplier Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier , 1858-1950, American essayist, b. Philadelphia. Her essays, esteemed for their scholarship and wit, are collected in several volumes, including Books and Men (1888), Points of Friction (1920), and To Think of Tea! (1932). She also wrote biographical studies of Jacques Marquette... Read more
Two Gentlemen of Verona Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), a musical comedy by John Guare (book, lyrics), Mel Shapiro (book), Galt MacDermot (music). [St. James Theatre, 627 perf.; Tony, NYDCC Awards.] This updated, musicalization of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona was given a rock score when presented by the... Read more
Frederick Ashton Frederick Ashton
Frederick Ashton The choreographer most responsible for the growth of ballet in modern-day England, Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988) was one of the most important twentieth-century inheritors of the classical ballet tradition, developed in France and nurtured in the late nineteenth century... Read more
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IMMUNE SYSTEM The immune system provides the body with resistance to disease. Innate immunity is furnished by relatively nonspecific mechanisms, such as the rapid inflammation experienced shortly after injury or infection. In contrast to innate mechanisms that hinder the entrance and initial spread... Read more
Laughter Laughter
238. Laughter See also 213. HUMOR . Abderian relating to foolish or excessive laughter. [Allusion to Democritus, the laughing philosopher, born in Abdero.] cachinnation raucous laughter; loud whinnying. geloscopy, gelotoscopy a form of divination that determines a person Read more
Edward Noyes Westcott Edward Noyes Westcott
Edward Noyes Westcott 1846-98, American novelist and banker, b. Syracuse, N.Y. He is known for his popular novel, David Harum (pub. posthumously, 1898), which concerns a shrewd, humorous country banker.... Read more
Josh Billings Josh Billings
Josh Billings pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818-85, American humorist and lecturer, b. Lanesboro, Mass. After a roving life as farmer, explorer, and coal miner, he settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as an auctioneer and real estate dealer. In 1860 he began to write humorous sketches and homespun... Read more
Felix Octavius Carr Darley Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr (1822–88), is best known for his pen‐and‐ink illustrations for books, which show both a technical facility and a sense of humor. Among the works he illustrated were The Library of Humorous American Works (29 vols., 1846–53), and books by... Read more

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