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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Greensboro, NC : Tuscaloosa, AL :
Southeastern Theatre Conference ; University of Alabama Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Theatre symposium ;
v. 16. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.