Black comedy and its use in criticising modern society

Question to be answered:
What is the play’s overall criticism of modern society and how does the black comedy address or attack the audience?

Using Peter Barnes’ play – “Laughter!” (Part 1: “Tsar” and 2: “Auschwitz”

and ideas from the following:

1: Murray s. Davis, “What’s So Funny?” (Not the whole book, only the section “Perverse Transformations: Groteque Humor”
(The University of Chicago press, 1994)

2: Woody Allen’s “Death Knocks”

3: Joseph W. Meeker, “The Comedy of Survival” (again, not the whole book, only on the section “The Comic Way”

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