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Hazel and Harold

Description: Recording of a radio comedy, Hazel and Harold, featuring Willis Conover as Harold. The program is reminiscent of the early Ethel and Albert programs he did with Peg Lynch at WTBO in Cumberland, Maryland, before the Second World War.
Date: 194X
Duration: 14 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Enrique Pérez Eschrich

Description: No extensive study exists that covers the foundation of the dramatic works of Enrique Pérez Escrich, therefore we believe it will be a positive use of our efforts in this thesis to examine this aspect of his literary personality. We will divide his works between dramas and comedies, dedicating a chapter to each.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Tomassini, Juan B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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The Satirical Elements in the Works of Sir John Vanbrugh

Description: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate through an examination of the satirical elements in Sir John Vanbrugh's eight complete plays and his fragmentary last play that his central motivating force was a desire to entertain London society and divert them from "their wives and taxes."
Date: January 1967
Creator: Hanicak, Helen W.
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Le tonnelier

Description: Libretto of the comic opera "Le tonnelier" (The cooper) by Nicolas-Médard Audinot in collaboration with Antoine-François Quétant. The music of this one-act opera is a pasticcio of works by Gossec and other contemporaneous composers. Typical of the genre, the opera contains a variety of musical forms (airs, romance, vaudeville, and recitatives) and the dialogues are interspersed with additional airs, possibly using popular tunes. This copy includes (on pp. 52 and 54-56) notated melodies of air… more
Date: 1765
Creator: Audinot, Nicolas Médard, 1732-1801. & Quétant, Antoine-François, 1733-1823.
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Cendrillon

Description: Libretto of the 1759 pastiche-style comic opera "Cendrillon," by Louis Anseaume. The songs were contributed by the singer-composer Jean-Louis Laruette and Egidio Duni, which they likely adapted from fashionable tunes. "Cendrillon" (Cinderella in English) premiered in Paris at Foire St-Germain on February 21, 1759. The opera underwent two revisions before the definitive version of 1764. Anseaume adapted the plot the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. This copy includes (from pp.54-63) notated m… more
Date: 1759
Creator: Anseaume, M. (Louis), 1721-1784
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[Two men with Ajax store display]

Description: Photograph of two men standing behind stacked boxes of cans of Ajax cleanser. Between the men on the display is a sign advertising the "Colgate Comedy Hour" on WBAP. The exposure of the photograph is low.
Date: September 12, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Persuasive Power of Ridicule: A Critical Rhetorical Analysis of Gender and Humor in U.S. Sitcoms

Description: The serious investigation of humor's function in society is an emerging area of research in critical humor studies, a "negative" subsect of the extensive and "positive" research that assumes humor's goodness. Using Michael Billig's theory of ridicule as a framework, this study explored how humor operated to discipline characters who broke social norms or allowed characters to rebel against those norms. Layering this with gender performative theory, the study also investigated how different male… more
Date: May 2017
Creator: Waters, Leah E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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[Ajax cleanser store display]

Description: Photograph of two men standing behind stacked boxes of cans of Ajax cleanser. Between the men on the display is a sign advertising the "Colgate Comedy Hour" on WBAP.
Date: September 12, 1950
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Morality and Wit of Congreve and Sheridan in the Comedy of Manners

Description: Considering the comedies of the Restoration, and those of Congreve in particular, as the prototype of the comedy of manners and as the model for Sheridan later to revive and emulate, this thesis proposes to point out how the concepts of morality and wit have been a major obstacle to literary critics in analyzing the comedy of manners from its very beginnings, to discuss morality and wit as the basis of a proper evaluation of the comedy of manners both from the standpoint of seventeenth-century … more
Date: 1958
Creator: Williams, Samuel Richard
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[Tyler Perry's "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" live performance]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a live performance of Tyler Perry's "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" held on October 3rd, 2000. The footage shows a production centered on four generations of women revealing their secrets about the men in their lives.
Date: October 3, 2000
Duration: 2 hours 4 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: National Touring Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Reading of Shakespeare's Problem Plays into History: A New Historicist Interpretation of Social Crisis and Sexual Politics in Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure

Description: This study is aimed to read Shakespeare's problem comedies, Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure into the historical and cultural context of dynamically-changing English Renaissance society at the turn of the sixteenth century. In the historical context of emerging capitalism, growing economic crisis, reformed theology, changing social hierarchy, and increasing sexual control, this study investigates the nature of complicated moral problems that the plays consistently present. The prima… more
Date: December 1998
Creator: Jin, Kwang Hyun
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["Succeeding Beyond the Limits"]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their "Succeeding Beyond the Limits" event in 2001. This video features a theatrical comedy performance of "Succeeding Beyond the Limits," by Teresa Coleman-Wash. Performed live on the Naomi Bruton Main Stage.
Date: 2001-02-26/2001-02-28
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 03 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.773857 -96.797966
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Hip Pocket]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 19, 1982, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Don't be Deceived, There's Still Some Good Men Left" tape 1 of 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Dress Performance Theatre Series production of "Don't be Deceived, There's Still Some Good Men Left" starring David Whitfield. The production was held over the weekend of January 22nd, 2010 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The footage shows Whitfield giving an inspiring one-man comedic performance focusing on romantic relationship mishaps.
Date: January 22, 2010
Duration: 53 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis & Whitfeild, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: After Hours]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 19, 1985, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["What Kind of Love is This?" live performance video]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the showing of Shelly Garretts' play "What Kind of Love is This?". The footage shows a stage with 8 actors acting out a story about the trials and tribulations of romantic and familial relationships.
Date: April 1997
Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Osborne, Jeffrey; Spencer, Corrian; Cain, Sharron; Taylor, Sophia; Dunbar, Stephene K.; Williams, Christoper et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Be Careful What You Pray For" tape 1 of 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the live performance of "Be Careful What You Pray For" written by Lisa Garrett Reynolds on the Naomi Bruton mainstage in March 2000. The footage shows a musical comedy production of the story of a young gospel singer on a quest to find love and a better life outside a Christian upbringing.
Date: March 26, 2000
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis; Reynolds, Lisa Garrett; Gooding, Cuba; Murdock, Shirley; Peaston, David & Jones, Clyde R.
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Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Be Careful What You Pray For" tape 2 of 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the live performance of "Be Careful What You Pray For" written by Lisa Garrett Reynolds on the Naomi Bruton mainstage in March 2000. The footage shows a musical comedy production of the story of a young gospel singer on a quest to find love and a better life outside a Christian upbringing.
Date: March 26, 2000
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis; Reynolds, Lisa Garrett; Gooding, Cuba; Murdock, Shirley; Peaston, David & Jones, Clyde R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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["Here Comes the Payne" tape 1 of 3]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the dress performance theatre series of "Here Comes the Payne" starring Carl Payne on February 5th, 2010 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The footage shows Payne playing different versions of himself from his life and childhood from a comedic perspective.
Date: February 5, 2010
Duration: 54 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Payne, Carl & King, Curtis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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