MLA Commons | Lauren Caldwell | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/caldwellian/activity/ Activity feed for Lauren Caldwell. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:03:10 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e7125fb12c97b6d533aee9d9196cf4f2 Lauren Caldwell wrote a new post, abstract: sabina amanbayeva, on the site comic adaptation / adapting to comedy http://adaptingtocomedy.mla.hcommons.org/2014/01/03/abstract-sabina-amanbayeva-2/ Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:40:50 -0500 Cony-caught into Belief: Early Modern Cony-Catching Pamphlets and Thomas Middleton’s City Comedy
The paper follows the publishing success of Robert Greene’s series of cony-catching pamphlets, sensational stories […]

]]> 359a4dd105f8e2ffd16eb7a69b897e17 Lauren Caldwell wrote a new post, abstract: andrew stott, on the site comic adaptation / adapting to comedy http://adaptingtocomedy.mla.hcommons.org/2013/11/20/abstract-andrew-stott/ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:48:56 -0500 “Labor Relations, Sad Clowns”
This paper aims to explore what happens to our sense of comic performance when we choose to foreground clowning as a form of work. Beginning with a review of autobiographies by […]

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In Feeling and Form, Susanne Langer refers to the comic rhythm as “the rhythm of ‘felt life,’” by which she means “the sentient aspect of organic unity, […]

]]> 9509f1f867fb1a292e17b52f6b058f9c Lauren Caldwell wrote a new post, abstract: sabina amanbayeva, on the site comic adaptation / adapting to comedy http://adaptingtocomedy.mla.hcommons.org/2013/11/20/abstract-sabina-amanbayeva/ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:43:42 -0500 “Cony-Caught into Belief: Early Modern Cony-Catching Pamphlets and Thomas Middleton’s City Comedy”
When Thomas Middleton, a popular playwright writing in early 1600s, adapted Robert Greene’s very popular […]

]]> 3e3812e214c66e722d94fe31a9ad663f Lauren Caldwell wrote a new post, panelist bios, on the site comic adaptation / adapting to comedy http://adaptingtocomedy.mla.hcommons.org/2013/10/04/panelist-bios/ Fri, 04 Oct 2013 19:17:20 -0400 Sabina Amanbayeva is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, “The Pleasure and Profit of Laughter on the Early Modern English Stage, 1590-1610,” investigates […]

]]> 41e068ec0d48d21188b298c13c318703 Lauren Caldwell wrote a new post, session description, on the site comic adaptation / adapting to comedy http://adaptingtocomedy.mla.hcommons.org/2013/09/29/session-description/ Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:24:49 -0400 Among scholars of English literature, comedy remains a rather neglected category. In fact, comedy is sufficiently slippery that we even have difficulty determining what type of object it is. Is it a genre? A […]

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