Leslie Smith

Modern British Farce

A Selective Study of British Farce from Pinero to the Present Day

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the popular modern dramatists and the continuity of the farce tradition from Pinero to Travers, the Whitehall team and Orton which examines and questions some of the common assumptions about its nature. Farce techniques are shown to be increasingly used in serious drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-09761-6
• 1st ed. 1989
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781349097616
• ISBN-10: 1349097616
• Artikelnr.: 44458532

Inhaltsangabe

The nature of farce; A.W.Pinero and the Court farces; Ben Travers and the Aldwych farces; Brian Rix and the Whitehall farces; post-Whitehall farces; Joe Orton; farce and contemporary Drama I and II.