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Dario Fo : framing, festival, and the folkloric imagination / Antonio Scuderi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scuderi, Antonio, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Italy--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- Fo, Dario--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fo, Dario.
- Fo, Dario--Technique.
- Fo, Dario--Stage history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth, England : Lexington Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study of the Italian Nobel playwright and master performer, Dario Fo, will be of interest to scholars and students of popular performance and contemporary European theatre. Dario Fo: Framing, Festival, and the Folkloric Imagination is an interdisciplinary study of Fo's use of framing techniques, based on popular performance and informed by popular culture.
- Contents:
- Dario Fo; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction, Scope, and Methodology; 2 Metacommunication and the Interpretive Frame; 3 Ennobling Folk Culture and Re-Presenting History; 4 The European Carnival from Liminal to Liminoid; 5 The Carnival Frame and Zoomorphic Symbolism; 6 Dario Fo and The Holy Jester Francis; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- "First paperback edition 2013"--T.p. verso.
- Frontispiece: Sketch of the backdrop for The Holy Jester Francis.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 10, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780739151136
- 0739151134
- 9780739183403
- 0739183400
- 9780739169223
- 073916922X
- OCLC:
- 856870554
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