Titlebook: Humour in British First World War Literature; Taming the Great War Emily Anderson Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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,The Domestication of Death: ‘There are lots of jokes’, these are the focus of this chapter. First, J. M. Barrie’s play . (1918) and, second, servicemen’s limericks and parodies of nursery rhymes that were printed in trench newspapers. While contrasting in many ways, these texts all take amusement as a legitimate feeling in the representation of death,

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,Class and Social Structure: ‘It is not taken seriously’,ifferent receptions of plays by John Galsworthy, Gertrude Jennings, and George Bernard Shaw suggest how humour interacted with texts’ content and with playwrights’ reputations to determine whether dramas were received as being ‘harmless’..Humour regularly facilitated the discussion of topics and out

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,The War and the Domestic Sphere: ‘That perpetual sense of the ridiculous’,f the conflict on hens’ laying habits, to competitive patriotism in the British suburbs, and to the attempts of shopkeepers to sell unnecessary wartime gadgets. Many humorous texts also place the military sphere in the frame of the domestic or quotidian. These include sketches that emphasize the ord