...from Love's Labour's Lost reveal a notion of the jest as a commodity to be defined by its exchange: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.* From the sixteenth century, when the term "jest" was first used to designate all manner of laughable...

...party to a joke. Shakespeare realized this when he said, in Love's Labour's Lost (Act V, Scene 2) : A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. The social value of these expressions of our more elementary nature, which contribute to the well-being...

...Y1 I have sent the ...". Also, THAT was used to denote WHO (as in the epitaph) in Elizabethan days: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. Love 'a Labours Lost Act V, sc. 2 Y served the following purposes in the epitaph: 1. r, TE, and T-Es...

...construction. Freud quotes Shakespeare to illustrate the dynamic between told, teller, and listener: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (Love's Labor's Lost, V.ii.861)25 Interpreting jokes tells us much about reading a play's performance...

...itself in the laughter of its hearers. Similarly, as Rosaline says to Berowne in Love's Labor's Last, "A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that...hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it" (5.2.857-59). If the success of a jest depends largely upon audience ratification, then an orator or...

...dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to the purpose." Does the Audience Share Tour Great Wit? A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. Rosaline, Love's Labour's Lost. 5, 2 Humor can be a powerful communication device. What about ethnic...

...contrary, appeared to drop into its place, and be ready to assist in paying the reverence required. Again, 'A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it.' I thought, in quoting from memory, of ' A jest's success,' ' A jest's renown,' etc. I then turned to...

...the end she imposes a twelve-month penance on Berowne before she will marry him. She reminds him that 'a jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it', and condemns him to try his wit in a hospital among the 'groaning wretches'. Berowne describes her...

...appearance he was particularly up to date; but unfortunately what is up to date soon becomes out of date. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it; and our ears have long lost their relish for this kind of Tudor humor. Pistol was contemporary, and...

...Berowne protests that it is impossible 'To move wild laughter in the throat of death," Rosaline answers, Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit, Whose...hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. (V.ii.864, 867-72) "A twelvemonth?" Berowne answers, "Well, befall what will befall / I'll jest a twelvemonth...