Farce.

Format:

Book

Series:

Themes in drama 0263-676X ; 10.

Themes in drama. 0263-676X ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farce.

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Physical Description:

277 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Contents:

Clowning and slapstick in Aristophanes / by Douglas M. MacDowell

The dawn of farce / by Gregory Dobrov

Greek stagecraft and Aristophanes / by N.J. Lowe

Plautus versus Komoidia / by Victor Castellani

Racine's Les plaideurs / by Maya Slater

Nahum Tate's defense of farce / introduced and edited by Peter Holland

His own triumphantly comic self / by Jim Davis

Georges Feydeau and the 'serious' farce / by J. Paul Marcoux

Feydeau and the farcical imperative / by Michael Booth

From Arlequin to Ubu / by W.D. Howarth

Grotesque farce in the Weimar Republic / by Christopher Balme

Yvan Goll / by John Swan

Farce after existentialism / by Richard L. Homan

The fool and the clown / by Jeffrey D. Mason

The cruciform farce in Latin America / by Andrea G. Labinger

Joe Orton's Jacobean assimilations in What the butler saw / by William Hutchings

The stereotype betrayed / by Gabrielle Robinson

On stage, off stage, and backstage with Alan Ayckbourn / by Albert E. Kalson

Taking farce seriously / by David Wiles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521353475

OCLC:

23215419