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Literature in English, North America

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2000

Comedy and Identity

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Raising Life To A Kind Of Art, Jonna Mackin Dec 1999

Raising Life To A Kind Of Art, Jonna Mackin

Dr. Jonna C Mackin

Though T.S. Eliot claimed to prize the working class ethos of Music Hall Comedy, he and his favorite artiste Marie Lloyt were key players in an essentially middle-class project of making sexual representation more explicit and more widely available but also more respectable as "art."