Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus
By Emma Warhover | December 27, 2021
It is a truth universally acknowledged that humor ages poorly. Jokes tend to be topical, and to be based on the social expectations of a particular group at a particular moment. The deterioration of humor over time is often a matter of changing contexts as well as changing tastes: ideas that once made a coherent joke cease to fit together.