I am looking for at least 10 articles, essays, or other online
writings comparing, or explaining the evolution from  silent film
comedians like Chaplin and Keaton to later physical comedians like
Marx brothers, Abbot and Costello and Laurel and Hardy.

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Clarification of Question by solar12123-ga on 14 Nov 2002 20:05 PST

By "later physical comedians" I am refering to the post-silent era.

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 15 Nov 2002 10:01 PST

Aren't Laurel and Hardy silent?

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Clarification of Question by solar12123-ga on 15 Nov 2002 13:43 PST

They made both silent and sound films.

check out:

Screwball Comedy Films: A History And Filmography, 1934-1942
By: Byrge, Duane; Joint Author Miller, Robert Milton; Foreword by
Knight, Arthur
Paperback//Illustrated
156 pages
McFarland & Company
Language: English
ISBN: 0786411066

also u might want to contact folks at the National Comedy Hall of Fame
http://www.comedyhall.com/

or this site
http://www.filmsite.org/comedyfilms.html

or this book
Laughing Out Loud: Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay
by Andrew Horton.  University of California Press, Berkeley 94720
ISBN: 0-520-22015-3

you should also be able to use the names of chaplin and others for
google searching, they would have their biographies available
somewhere.

best wishes for your research