A Confederacy of Dunces

Book Reconsideration: “A Confederacy of Dunces” — Still an American Comic Masterpiece?

June 29, 2020
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A reassessment on the 40th anniversary of A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel that many consider one of the funniest ever written by an American.

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Theater Review: A Second Look at the “Confederacy”

November 26, 2015
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The humor of Toole’s novel, its enjoyment of puncturing surfaces and pretensions, has been reduced to punch-line humor and one-liners.

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Theater Review: “A Confederacy of Dunces”—A Genial Comic Uprising

November 22, 2015
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The Huntington Theatre Company is giving Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage adaptation of the celebrated comic novel a congenial production.

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