A national joke: Popular comedy and English cultural identities

A National Joke: Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-228

  Medhurst, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203022566     Document Type: Book

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