"Remember the Porter: Knock-Knock Jokes, Tragedy, and Other Unfunny Things"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc2001/
Author:
	Barret, Chris.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Moncrief, Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, 61–71.
:
	Moncrief, Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Annotation:
	Examines Macbeth 2.3.1-20 as an instance of the "first knock-knock joke in English" and "of genetic hybridity." Concludes that "the joke is not an interlude or a relief or an indulgence. Rather it is an unforgiving mirror" directed at the audience and thus resolving the tension between tragedy and the knock-knock joke.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Moncrief, Kathryn M.; McPherson, Kathryn R.; Enloe, Sarah
Tags:
	Macbeth, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Spring 2015
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc2001