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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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