ENGLISH HUMOR: SEE ALSO ATTACHMENTS for INDIVIDUAL ENGLISH AUTHORS by Don L. F. Nilsen English Department Arizona State Universi

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by Don L. F. Nilsen English Department Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 ( [email protected] )

Aercke, Kristiaan P. Gods of Play: Baroque Festive Performances as Rhetorical Discourse. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994. Alden, Raymond MacDonald. The Rise of Formal Satire in England under Classical Influence. New York, NY: Archon, 1961. Altick, Richard D. PUNCH: The Lively Youth of a British Institution, 1841-1851. Columbus, OH: Ohio University Press, 1997. Belkin, Roslyn. "The Worth of the Shadow: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 1.3 (1989): 3-8. Biester, James. Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Bishop, Ellen. "Bakhtin, Carnival and Comedy: The New Grotesque in Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Film Criticism 15.1 (1990): 49-64. Blyth, Relginald H. Humor in English Literature: A Chronological Anthology. Tokyo, Japan: The Folcroft Press, 1970. Boardman, Brigid M. "'Dear Jester in the Courts of God': Francis Thompson's Tribute to St. Thomas More." Moreana 27.101-102 (1990): 87-92. Bowen, Barbara C., ed. One Hundred Renaissance Jokes: An Anthology. Birmingham, Alabama: Summa Publications, 1988. Braun, Heather L. “English Comedy, Victorian.” Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide Ed. Maurice Charney. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005, 280-295. Brewer, Derek. "Prose Jest-Books Mainly in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries in England." A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day. Eds. Jan Bremmer, and Herman Roodenburg. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1997, 90-111. Brooke, Nicholas. Horrid Laughter in Jacobean Tragedy. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1979. Browning, J. D. ed. Satire in the 18th Century. New York, NY: Garland, 1983. Burns, Edward. Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity. New York: St. Martin's, 1987. Busby, Olive Mary. Studies in the Development of the Fool in the Elizabethan Drama. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library Editions. 1975. Cardiff, D. "Mass Middlebrow Laughter--The Origins of BBC Comedy." Media, Culture, and Society 10.1 (1988): 41-60. Carlson, Richard S. The Benign Humorists. New York, NY: Archon, 1975. Carmeli, Yoram S. "An Outsider and a Fool: Participant Observation in a British Circus." Play and Culture 4.4 (1991): 305-321. Cazamian, Louis. The Development of English Humor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1952. Clark, John. "The Decline and Fall of Jack and Jill." Studies in Contemporary Satire 18 (1991-1992): 1-8. Colletta, Lisa. Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel. New York, NY: Palgrave/McMillan, 2003. Collins, Clife. "Clive Collins Interviews Britain's Political Cartoonist of the Year, Charles Griffin." Witty World 6-7 (1989): 72-76.

BRITISH HUMOR, PAGE 1 Cordner, Michael, Peter Holland, and John Kerrigan, eds. English Comedy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Crawford, Neil. "Do You Like Aural? British Phone Sex Ads" Maledicta 11 (1990-1995): 129-132. Crockett, Bryan. The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. Davies, Christie. "The Changing Stereotype of the Welsh in English Jokes." It's a Funny Thing, Humour. Eds. Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot. NY: Pergamon, 1977, 311-14. Davis, Bruce J. "The Development of Sustained Narrative Irony in Fourteenth-Century Europe." Unpublished MA Thesis. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, 1991. Delabastita, Dirk. “Cross-Language Comedy in Shakespeare.” HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 18.2 (2005): 161-184. Douch, L., and V. Arthey. "Comedy on BBC2 1964-1981 (Teleography)." Primetime 1.6-7 (1983): 20-26. Duckworth, A. M. “Lisa Colletta Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel.” English Literature in Transition 49.2 (2006): 234-238. Dutton, R. Modern Tragicomedy and the British Tradition Brighton, England: Harvester Press, 1986. Dynes, William R. "The Trickster-Figure in Jacobean City Comedy." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 33.2 (1993): 365-384. Easthope, Antony. “The English Sense of Humor?” HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 13.1 (2000): 59-76. English, James F. Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda. "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel, or Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England." New Perspectives on Women and Comedy. Ed. Regina Barreca. Philadelphia, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1992, 123-134. Everson, William K. "British Humor on the Screen." Films in Review 8.9 (1957): 433-442. Farley-Hills, David. The Benovelence of Laughter: Comic Poetry of the Commonwealth and Restoration. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1974. Fisher, James. "Harlequinade: Commedia dell'Arte on the Early Twentieth-Century British Stage." Theatre Journal. 41 (1989): 30-44. Gale, Steven H. ed. Encyclopedia of British Humorists. Levittown, PA: Garland, 1995. Gifford, Denis. "British Comics Pull Duty During the War." Witty World 6-7 (1989): 84-86. Goldweber, David E. "Mr. Punch, Dangerous Savior." The International Journal of Comic Art 1.1 (1999): 157- 170. Gomez Lara, Manuel Jose. "Discurso Ironico en The Country Wife." Literary and Linguistic Aspects of Humour. Barcelona, Spain: Univ of Barcelona Dept of Language, 1984, 155-61. Goodman, Joel. "Humor is Not a Luxury: A Comedian Called Cleese." Laughing Matters 6.1 (1989): 7-15. Guilhamet, Leon. Satire and the Transformation of Genre. Philadelphia, PA: Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Haidu, Peter. Aesthetic Distance in Cretien de Troyes: Irony and Comedy in Cliges and Perceval. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1968. Haight, M. R. "Nonsense." British Journal of Aesthetics 11 (1971): 247-256. Hall, James. The Tragic Comedians: Seven Modern British Novelists. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1963, 3-10. Hawkes, David. “British Contemporary Comedy.” Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide Ed. Maurice Charney. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005, 185-198. Hazlitt, William. English Comic Writers London, England: E. P. Dutton, 1910. Heath-Stubbs, John. The Verse Satire. New York, NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1969. Henderson, Bill, ed. Rotten Reviews: A Literary Companion. New York: Penguin, 1986. Henkle. Roger B. Comedy and Culture--England--1820-1900. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. Hirst, David L. Comedy of Manners. Volume 40 of The Critical Idiom. London, England: Methuen, 1979.

BRITISH HUMOR, PAGE 2 Holcomb, Christopher. "`A Man in a Painted Garment': The Social Function of Jesting in Elizabethan Rhetoric and Courtesy Manuals." HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 13.4 (2000): 429-456. Holcomb, Christopher. Mirth Making: The Rhetorical Discourse on Jesting in Early Modern England. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Holden, William P. Anti-Puritan Satire. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ Press, 1954. Hünig, Wolfgang K. British and German Cartoons as Weapons in World War I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang, 2002. Hunt, Leigh. Wit and Humour from the English Poets. New York, NY: Folcroft Library, 1972. Imholtz, August A., Jr. "Latin and Greek Versions of 'Jabberwocky' Exercises in Laughing and Grief." Rocky Mountain Review 41.4 (1987): 211-228. Janik, Vicki K., ed. Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Jensen, H. James, and Malvin R. Zirker, Jr., eds. The Satirist's Art. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ Press, 1972. Johnson, Kim "Howard." Life Before and After Monty Python: The Solo Flights of the Flying Circus. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Kaiser, Walter Jacob. Praisers of Folly: Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. Kantra, Robert A. All Things Vain: Religious Satirists and Their Art. University Park, PA: Penn State Univ Press, 1984. Kaufman, Will. "Triumph of Wit, Triumph of Lent." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 16.1-2 (1997): 27-45. Kazmierczak, Janusz. “Raymond Williams and Cartoons: From Churchill’s Cigar to Cultural History.” International Journal of Comic Art 7.2 (2005): 147-163. Kehler, Dorothea. "The Comedy of Errors: as Problem Comedy." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 41.4 (1987): 229-41. Kernan, Alvin. The Cankered Muse: Satire of the English Renaissance. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ Press, 1959. Kingsley, James, and James T. Boulton. English Satiric Poetry. London, England: Edward Arnold, 1966. Knoepflmacher, U. C. "The Secret Agent: The Irony of the Absurd." Laughter and Despair: Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1971, 240-273. Kreider, Paul V. Elizabethan Comic Character Conventions. New York, NY: Octagon Books, 1975. L'Estrange, A. G. History of English Humour: with an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour. NY: Franklin, 1970. Lansbury, Coral. "The Triumph of Clarissa: Richardson's Divine Comedy." Thalia 1.1 (1987): 9-18. Lanters, José. "'Still Life' versus Real Life: the English Writings of Brian O'Nolan." Explorations in the Field of Nonsense. Ed. Wim Tigges. Amsterdam, Holland: Rodopi, 1987, 161-182. Larson, Egon. Wit as a Weapon. London, England: 1980. Lassner, Phyllis. "'Between the Gaps': Sex, Class and Anarchy in the British Comic Novel of World War II." Look Who's Laughing: Gender and Comedy. Ed. Gail Finney. New York, NY: Gordon and Breach, 1994. 205-220. Lawler-Wagner, Jennifer, ed. The Victorian Comic Spirit. London, England: Ashgate Press, 2000. LeCocq, Louis. La Satire en Angleterre de 1588 à 1603. Paris, France: Didier, 1969. Lederer, Richard. Literary Trivia: Fun and Games for Book Lovers. New York, NY: Vintage/Random House, 1994. Leeds, Christopher. English Humour Paris, France: Belin, 1989. Levin, Harry. Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy. New York, NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1987. Levin, Harry, ed. Veins of Humor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1972. Lewis, D. B. Wyndham, and Charles Lee, eds. The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. London: J. M. Dent, 1948. Leyburn, Ellen Douglass. Satiric Allegory: Mirror of Man. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1956.

BRITISH HUMOR, PAGE 3 Liebler, Naomi Conn. “English Comedy: Elizabethan and Jacobean.” Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide Ed. Maurice Charney. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005, 248-262. Lilley, Les. "Jubilee and Competition in the British Isles." Witty World 3 (1988): 20-21. Lilley, Les. "More New Comic Strip Trends in Britain! Witty World 11-12 (1991): 28-29. Lilley, Les. "New Trends for the Comic Strip in Britain." Witty World 9 (1990): 92-93. Lilley, Les. "The State of the Art of Cartoon in Great Britain." Witty World 2 (1987): 28-29. Lilly, William Samuel. Four English Humourists of the Nineteenth Century New York: Norwood, 1978. McConnell, R. "Theory of Comedy--An Elucidation of British and American Comedy in Broadcast Media." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 9.2 (1987): 40-48. McDonald, Beth E. "The Vampire as Trickster Figure in Bram Stoker's Dracula." Extrapolation 33.2 (1992): 128-144. McMaster, Juliet. "From Laura and Augustus to Love and Friendship." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 16.1- 2 (1997): 16-26. Macrae, David. "English Humor." National Humour. New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes, n.d., 129ff. Marcus, Leah S. The Politics of Mirth. Chicago: Univ of `Chicago Press, 1986. Mellor, Anne K. English Romantic Irony. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Mikesell, Margaret. “Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances.” Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide Ed. Maurice Charney. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005, 542-559. Miola, Robert S. The Comedy of Errors. Levittown, PA: Garland, 1997. Morris, Raymond N. Carnivalisation of Politics: Quebec Cartoons on Relations with Canada, England and France. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995. Murray, Christopher. “Noble Enterprises: Strip for Me and the British Small Press.” International Journal of Comic Art 7.2 (2005): 283-310. Nardin, Jane. "Conservative Comedy and the Women of Barchester Towers." Studies in the Novel. 18 (1986): 381-394. Nardo, Anna K. The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature Albany, NY: State Univ of New York Press, 1991. Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen. “British Humor.” Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Humor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, 4, 54, 57, 86, 164, 202, 206, 225, 314. Nilsen, Don L. F. "British Humor." Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993, 175-185. Nilsen, Don L. F. "Doppelgangers and Doubles in Literature: A Study in Tragicomic Incongruity." HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 11.2 (1998): 111-134. Nilsen, Don L. F. "George Orwell." Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, Volume 2. Ed. Steven H. Gale. New York, NY: Garland, 1996, 807-828. Nilsen, Don L. F. Humor in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration: A Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. Nilsen, Don L. F. "Humor in the Earliest English Literature." Kansas English 79-1 (1993): 36-47. Nilsen, Don L. F. Humor in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. Nilsen, Don L. F. Humor in Twentieth-Century British Literature: A Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. Nilsen, Don L. F. "J. R. R. Tolkien." Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, Volume 2. Ed. Steven H. Gale. New York, NY: Garland, 1996, 1122-1131. Nilsen, Don L. F., and Michael Shaughnessy. "Evelyn Waugh's Humor." El Portal 63.2 (Spring 2001): 265-300. Nokes, David. Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth Century Satire. New York, NY: Harvester Press, 1987. Orr, John. "Shepard I: The Rise of Myth/The Fall of Community." Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture: Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1994. 109-129.

BRITISH HUMOR, PAGE 4 Owen, D. D. R. "Burlesque Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Forum for Modern Language Studies 4 (1968): 125-145. Palmer, Jerry. "Humor in Great Britain." National Styles of Humor. Ed. Avner Ziv. NY: Greenwood, 1988, 85- 112. Palmer, Jerry. "Medieval Comedy: Fools and Folly." Taking Humor Seriously. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994, 40-56. Paolitto, Julia. "Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel." Review of English Studies 56.224 (2005): 343-345. Pearson, Hesketh. Lives of the Wits. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1962. Peter, John. Complaint and Satire in Early English Literature. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1956. Peters, Jan Eden. Scholastic Midwifery: Studien zum Satirischen in der englischen Literatur 1600-1800. Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1989. Pfister, Manfred, ed. A History of English Laughter: Laughter from Beowulf to Beckett and Beyond. New York, NY: Rodopi, 2002. Pilard, Philippe. "Cinéma Britannique: De la Comédie d'Ealing aux Monty Python." CinémActon: Revue de Cinéma et de Télévision Dirigée par Guy Hennebelle 82.1 (1997): 92-100. Previté-Orton, C. W. Political Satire in English Poetry. New York, NY: Russell and Russell, 1968. Priestley, J. B. The English Comic Characters. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1925. Priestly, J. B. English Humour. NY: Stein, 1976. Priestley, J. B. "Englishness in Humour and Hobbies." The English Ed. J. B. Priestley. London, England: Heinemann, 1973. Pujante, Angel Luis. "Satira, Comicad y Juegos de Palabras en A Game at Chess, de Thomas Middleton." Literary and Linguistic Aspects of Humour. Barcelona, Spain: Univ of Barcelona Dept of Languages, 1984: 211-16. Purdie, Susan. Comedy: The Mastery of Discourse. London, England: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. Raskin, Victor, ed. "Humor and Literature." WHIMSY 7. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Univ, 1989, 29-64. Reid, Arthur. "The FECO Edinburgh International Cartoon Festival, 1990." Witty World 11-12 (1991): 12-13. Richetti, John. “English Comedy, Restoration and Augustan.” Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide Ed. Maurice Charney. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005, 263-279. Risden, E. L. "Heroic Humor in Beowulf." Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Ed. J. Wilcox. Cambridge, England: E. S. Brewer, 2000. Robinson, Fred Miller. The Comedy of Language: Studies in Modern Comic Literature. Amherst: Univ of Mass Press, 1980. Ross, Ed. “The Representation of Immigrants and Immigration in UK Political Cartoons from 1968-2005.” International Journal of Comic Art 8.2 (2006): 283-306. Rothstein, Eric, and Frances M. Kavenik, The Designs of Carolean Comedy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ Press, 1988. Ruggiers, Paul George, ed. Versions of Medieval Comedy. Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Russell, Leonard, ed. English Wits. London, England: Hutchinson, 1940. Schäfer, Jürgen. Wort und Begriff Humour in der Elisabethanischen Komödie. Münster, Germany: Verlag Aschendorff, 1966. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Field of Nonsense. London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1952. Shippey, T. A. "Grim Wordplay': Folly and Wisdom in Anglo-Saxon Humor." Humor in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Ed. Jonathan Wilcox, Cambridge, England: E. S. Brewer, 2000. Siemens, Raymond George. "In Praise of Folly: Portraits of the Fool and Trickster in Medieval and Early Renaissance English Literature." Unpublished MA Thesis: University of Alberta, Canada, 1991. Sitter, John. Arguments of Augustan Wit. New York, NY: Cambridge Univ Press, 1991. Sonstroem, D. "Making Earnest of Game. G. M. Hopkins and Nonsense Poetry." Modern Language Quarterly 28 (1967): 192-206.

BRITISH HUMOR, PAGE 5 Stewart, H. "Comedy Film Production--an Assessment of Current Attitudes." British Kinematography 39.,4 (1961): 118-122. Stickler, Eve. "A School for Cartoonists that Isn't Just for Laughs." Witty World 11-12 (1991): 32-33. Stock, Lorraine Kochanske. "Comedy in the English Mystery Cycles: Three Comic Scenes in the Chester Shepherds' Play." Versions of Medieval Comedy. Ed. Paul Ruggiers. Norman, OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1977, 211-26. Sutherland, James. English Satire. Cambridge, England: University Press, 1958. Swain, Barbara. Fools and Folly during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. Tave, Stuart M. The Amiable Humorist: A Study in the Comic Theory and Criticism of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Chicago, IL: Univ of Chicago Press, 1960. Turner, F. McD. C. The Element of Irony in English Literature. Folcroft, PA: The Folcroft Press, 1925. Urwin, G. G. Humorists of the Eighteenth Century. London, England: John Murray, 1962. Walker, Hugh. English Satire and Satirists. London, England: J. M. Dent, 1925. Wardroper, John. The Caricatures of George Cruikshank. London, England: Gordon, Fraser, 1977. Wardroper, John. Cruikshank 200: Catalogue of Bicentenary Exhibition, 1992. London, England: Orleans House Gallery, 1992. Wardroper, John. Jest Upon Jest: A Selection from the Jestbooks and Collections of Merry Tales Published from the Reign of Richard III to George III. London, England: Routledge, 1970. Wardroper, John. Lovers, Rakes and Rogues: Amatory, Merry and Bawdy Verse 1580-1830. London, England: Shelfmark Books, 1995. Wechsler, Robert, ed. In a Fog: The Humorist's Guide to England. North Haven, CT: Catbird Press, 1993. Weinberger, Marc G., and H. E. Spotts. "Humor in the United States Versus UK TV Commercials--A Comparison." Journal of Advertising 18.2 (1989): 39-44. Weiss, Wolfgang. Die Englische Satire. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1982. Weld, John S. Meaning in Comedy: Studies in Elizabethan Romantic Comedy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. Wells, Robin Headlam. "William Cowper as Mock Epideictic Elegist." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 9.1 (1986): Welsh, Andrew. “Arthurian Romance.” Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide Ed. Maurice Charney. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005, 153-166. Welsh, Andrew. “Middle English Comedy.” Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide Ed. Maurice Charney. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005, 429-446. West, Richard Samuel. "Those Glorious Colored Pages: How Joseph Keppler, Art Director and Chief Cartoonist of Puck, Introduced Chromolithography into the American Humor Magazine." Witty World 9 (1990): 20-25. Whalen, Terry. "'Being Serious and Being Funny': Philip Larkin's Irony and Sarcasm." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 4.1 (1982): 10-14. Wilcox, Jonathan. "Anglo-Saxon Literary Humor: Towards a Taxonomy." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humour 14.1-2 (1994): 9-20. Wilcox, Jonathan, ed. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 2000. Williams, Edith Whitehurst. "Morgan La Fee as Trickster in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Folklore 96.1 (1985): 38-56. Womersley, David. Restoration Comedy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.

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