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Dario Fo : People's Court Jester.
The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner. This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to cover various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career. It looks at Fo's political influence...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014.
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| Colección: | Biography and Autobiography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: THE THEATRE OF DARIO FO AND FRANCA RAME; CHAPTER 1. MISTERO BUFFO AND THE GIULLARATE; Popular culture, the giullari and the grotesque; Recovering 'illegitimate' forms of theatre
- the giullari; Language as burlesque
- grammelot; Addressing the audience
- prologues, interludes and asides; The texts in performance; The TV performances; A Chinese Mistero buffo: Tale of a Tiger; Obscene Fables; Mistero buffo and its legacies; CHAPTER 2. BIOGRAPHY AND OUTPUT 1951-1967; Early influences; Radio origins; Revue and avanspettacolo.
- Musical activities and the cinemaThe early farces; The 'bourgeois period'; The television fiasco; Historical drama in an epic context; Graveyard humour and witchcraft; Popular music, an adaptation, and circus satire; CHAPTER 3. THEATRE IN THE SERVICE OF CLASS STRUGGLE 1968-1973; Nuova Scena: a new theatre for a new audience; La Comune and Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Political documentaries; The 'roadshows' and Fo's arrest; CHAPTER 4. POLITICAL THEATRE ON SHIFTING GROUND 1974-1983; The Palazzina Liberty and Can't Pay? Won't Pay!; Political pamphlets; Return to TV and Female Parts.
- Confronting terrorism and Trumpets and RaspberriesAdapting Brecht and The Open Couple; CHAPTER 5. FROM ELIZABETH TO THE POPE AND THE WITCH 1984-1989; The Tricks of the Trade; Fo and Shakespeare, Rame and Elisabetta; Harlequin and Kidnapping Francesca; Return to TV and The Pope and the Witch; CHAPTER 6. INTO THE 1990S: MOLIÈRE, COLUMBUS, RUZZANTE AND THE NOBEL PRIZE; Molière at the Comédie Française; AIDS and genetic experiments; Let's Talk about Women and johan Padan; 'Clean Hands' and Ruzzante; Sex, devils, Sofri and the Nobel Prize; CHAPTER 7. FO AND RAME IN THE UK; Translating Fo.
- Adapting Fo (1)
- (We) Can't Pay? (We) Won't Pay!Adapting Fo (2)
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Adapting Fo (3)
- Female Parts; Mistero buffo in London; Teaching praxis; Adapting Fo (4)
- Trumpets and Raspberries; Adapting Fo (5)
- From Elizabeth to Abducting Diana; CHAPTER 8. FO AND RAME IN THE USA; We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!; Accidental Death of an Anarchist on Broadway; Orgasmo Adulto; From About Face to The Story of the Tiger; PART TWO: CHRONOLOGIES OF THE WORKS OF FO AND RAME; CHAPTER 9. A biographical chronology; CHAPTER 10. Stage plays; CHAPTER 11. Minor plays.
- CHAPTER 12. AdaptationsCHAPTER 13. Films; CHAPTER 14. Radio plays; CHAPTER 15. Television plays; CHAPTER 16. Songs; CHAPTER 17. Books and essays; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.