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Rupert Thomson's 2005
novel Divided Kingdom.
classical element Comedy of
humours Three Doshas of
Ayurveda Five
temperaments Mitama Wu Xing (Five Principles...
- body,
known as
humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"),
controlled human health and emotion.
People of all ages and
cultures respond to
humour. Most people...
- good
mixture of the
humours defined good health,
while an
imbalance or
separation of the
humours led to disease.
Because the
humours corresponded to certain...
- of
humours is a
genre of
dramatic comedy that
focuses on a
character or
range of characters, each of whom
exhibits overriding traits or '
humours' that...
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Surreal humour (also
called surreal comedy,
absurdist humour, or
absurdist comedy) is a form of
humour predicated on
deliberate violations of
causal reasoning...
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Toilet humour,
potty humour or
scatological humour (compare scatology), is a type of off-colour
humour dealing with
defecation (including
diarrhea and...
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Shock humour is a
style of
comedy intended to
shock the audience. This can be
achieved through excessively foul
toilet humour,
overt ****ual themes, mocking...
- Aristophanes.[excessive citations] The term
black humor (from the
French humour noir) was
coined by the
Surrealist theorist André
Breton in 1935
while interpreting...
- The
Humours of an
Election is a
series of four oil
paintings and
later engravings by
William Hogarth that
illustrate the
election of a
member of parliament...
- Deadpan, dry
humour, or dry-wit
humour is the
deliberate display of
emotional neutrality or no emotion,
commonly as a form of
comedic delivery to contrast...
