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"Mathematicians can be brilliantly funny. On studying: "Ten hours the first day, nine hours the second, and so on. That's why they call them 'lessons,' because they lessen.""

4.29 avg rating — 4,774,501 ratings

"Read my rev."

3.74 avg rating — 180,275 ratings

"Delicious, very modern and sexual irony on a strong woman, Kate. Zeffirelli's 1967 film is excellent, casting a 14-yr-old (Juliet's age at marriage) as Kate, though as usual, the film cuts the text (what, 60% remains?) probably the most famous Renaissance English ref to oral sex, "What, with my tongue in your tail?" Petrucchio…
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4.06 avg rating — 258,079 ratings

"See my review of Branagh's film version, which omits too much.
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3.52 avg rating — 15,931 ratings

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"See my review."

3.94 avg rating — 46,838 ratings

"Dickens' wonderful satiric ear, here put to the best purpose: eliminating the sadistic Northern boarding schools, the myriad Mr Squeers. This book did cause a few up there to fail.
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3.59 avg rating — 298,211 ratings

"Maybe A Modest Proposal should be addended, as some editions do: the satire that had the greatest effect in English, though Nickleby a close second.
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3.72 avg rating — 34,381 ratings

"Probably the funniest Roman comedy on English stage, from two of Plautus's plays, Menaechmi being the most famous. Though an early attempt by the Bard, it works great on stage; another early one, my favorites scene, Crab the dog in Two Gentlemen of V, but the whole play maybe less than Errors.
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3.68 avg rating — 18,058 ratings

"Wonderful satire on home improvement, father-son relations, petty embarrassments of average semi-detached suburban life, though Pooter may live in a row house.
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3.85 avg rating — 53,070 ratings

"A few insightful scholars agree with me that this has the structure of comedy (e.g., ends in marriage) and includes Shakespeare's only dialect comedy, Irish, Scottish, French and especially, Welsh. (My work on this play has been quoted in books on Sh an Wales, and Scotland.)
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