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Comedy tonight! /

For centuries scholars, philosophers, and practitioners have attempted to explain just what constitutes comedy, and though no one has come close to a definitive explanation, each attempt highlights some distinct facet of the genre--the genre that Woody Allen has said eats at the childrens table ......

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.)
Otros Autores: Malarcher, Jay, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Greensboro, NC : Tuscaloosa, AL : Southeastern Theatre Conference ; University of Alabama Press, ©2008.
Colección:Theatre symposium ; v. 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The commedia dell'arte as the quintessence of comedy / Stanley Vincent Longman
  • Creating new comic stereotypes on the Croatian postwar/transition stage / Boris Senker
  • A method to the madness: laughter research, comedy training, and improv / Patrick Bynane
  • Comedy tonight ... and tomorrow: A funny thing happened on the way to the forum and Laughter through the ages / Diana Calderazzo
  • Performing Molière's comedies: challenges and approaches / Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian
  • The laugh factor: humor and horror at Le Théâtre du Grand Guignol / Felicia J. Ruff
  • When satire more than closed on Saturday night: Henry Fielding and the Licensing Act of 1737 / Steven Dedalus Burch
  • Meat, bones, and laughter without words: finding Bergson's Laughter in Beckett's Act without words I / Christopher Morrison
  • "The ptydepe word meaning 'wombat' has 319 letters": an information-age view of technology and satire in the works of Václav Havel / E. Bert Wallace
  • Terry Johnson's Hysteria: laughter on the abyss of insight / Luc Gilleman
  • Situations, happenings, gatherings, laughter: emergent British stand-up comedy in sociopolitical context / Broderick D.V. Chow.