Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.

What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable?

The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.

Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.

Agnes Among the Gargoyles commences at the dedication of an office tower constructed atop Grand Central Station.

Prelude to Hemlock is a black comedy that follows the fortunes of the young narrator.

Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy.

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

One of Henry James' greatest novels, The Ambassadors is a dark comedy from 1903.

These two stories by Koos Rozemond, with English translations by Aart van den End.

Set in central Angola during the final stages of the country's thirty-year civil war.

It's been said that Jann Arden can bring an audience to tears.

The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague.

The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist that it had one out of the three.

Charles Wesley Emerson's book The Evolution of Expression was a central text in the Monroe.