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The comprehensive and definitive account of farce : one of the world's funniest art forms
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The comprehensive and definitive account of farce : one of the world's funniest art forms

Author: Albert Bermel
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1982.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st Touchstone ed
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Albert Bermel
ISBN: 067125149X : 9780671251499 0671251481 9780671251482
OCLC Number: 9821684
Notes: "A Touchstone book."
Cover title: Farce.
Description: 464 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Part One. Recognizing farce. 1. Not the first word --
2. In the realm of the unreal --
3. Dionysos at large --
4. The shadowy edges of farce --
Part Two. Identifying farces. 5. A hurried tour from Greece to the twentieth century : I. Aristophanes to Shakespeare --
II. After the Restoration --
III. Nineteenth Century Britain, Ireland and America --
6. Sennett and farce on film --
7. Silent farce in the Jazz age --
8. The talking thirties --
9. Animals and animation --
10. Popular face after Feydeau --
11. Stage fantasy after Jarry --
12. Stage realism after Chekhov and Shaw --
13. Theatricalism after Pirandello --
14. Movies after 1940 --
15. The constellation of farce --
16. Not the last word.
Other Titles: Farce
Responsibility: Albert Bermel.

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