Author: Sierra St. James
Publisher: Bookcraft, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781573459709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Masquerade
Author: Sierra St. James
Publisher: Bookcraft, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781573459709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: Bookcraft, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781573459709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Dramatic Works of Moliére
Author: Henri Van Laun
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385223407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385223407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Television Comedy and Femininity
Author: Rosie White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178673656X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' – playing the underdog or misfit – does a woman seem stranger in his place? Mapping examples from British and American comedy television over the past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular forms of television comedy gendered in specific ways? Paying attention to series which have not been addressed in academic work, as well as more established shows, White offers fresh insights for the fields of television studies, gender and women's studies, cultural history and comedy.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178673656X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' – playing the underdog or misfit – does a woman seem stranger in his place? Mapping examples from British and American comedy television over the past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular forms of television comedy gendered in specific ways? Paying attention to series which have not been addressed in academic work, as well as more established shows, White offers fresh insights for the fields of television studies, gender and women's studies, cultural history and comedy.
The dramatic works of Molière
Author: Molière
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The life of Henry Fielding
Author: Larry Kert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Life of Henry Fielding
Author: Frederick Lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Comedian as Confidence Man
Author: Will Kaufman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814326572
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In this lively and fascinating analysis of humorists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory. The Comedian as Confidence Man examines the humorist's internal conflict between the social critic who demands to be taken seriously and the comedian who never can be: the irony fatigue condition. Concentrating on eight American literary and performing comedians from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, this study explores the irony fatigue affect that seems to pervade the work of comedians—those particular social observers who are obliged to promise, "Only kidding, folks," even when they may not be; in G. B. Shaw's words, they must "put things in such a way as to make people who would otherwise hang them believe they are joking." If these social observers are obliged to become, in effect, confidence men, with irony as the satiric weapon that both attacks and diverts, then the implications are great for those social critics who above all wish to be heeded.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814326572
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In this lively and fascinating analysis of humorists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory. The Comedian as Confidence Man examines the humorist's internal conflict between the social critic who demands to be taken seriously and the comedian who never can be: the irony fatigue condition. Concentrating on eight American literary and performing comedians from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, this study explores the irony fatigue affect that seems to pervade the work of comedians—those particular social observers who are obliged to promise, "Only kidding, folks," even when they may not be; in G. B. Shaw's words, they must "put things in such a way as to make people who would otherwise hang them believe they are joking." If these social observers are obliged to become, in effect, confidence men, with irony as the satiric weapon that both attacks and diverts, then the implications are great for those social critics who above all wish to be heeded.
Play Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Etherege and Wycherley
Author: Barbara Kachur
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137047798
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Etherege & Wycherley is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading comic dramatists of the early Restoration period. B.A. Kachur explores the major plays by George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural, social and political changes that marked the reign of Charles II, and addresses issues such as marriage, manners, heroism, sovereignty and anxieties over class hierarchies which preoccupied late seventeenth-century England. The book provides studies of the following plays: - She Would If She Could - The Man of Mode - The Country Wife - The Plain Dealer In addition to examining the plays as cultural and historical texts, Kachur offers: - Biographical sketches detailing the dramaturgical styles of the two playwrights - An overview of Charles II's reign, including its effects on the dramatic literature of the era - A survey of Carolean theatre and drama outlining innovations in staging, and major dramatic genres - Performance histories which illuminate the ways in which twentieth-century directors have interpreted the comedies to make them accessible to modern audiences
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137047798
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Etherege & Wycherley is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading comic dramatists of the early Restoration period. B.A. Kachur explores the major plays by George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural, social and political changes that marked the reign of Charles II, and addresses issues such as marriage, manners, heroism, sovereignty and anxieties over class hierarchies which preoccupied late seventeenth-century England. The book provides studies of the following plays: - She Would If She Could - The Man of Mode - The Country Wife - The Plain Dealer In addition to examining the plays as cultural and historical texts, Kachur offers: - Biographical sketches detailing the dramaturgical styles of the two playwrights - An overview of Charles II's reign, including its effects on the dramatic literature of the era - A survey of Carolean theatre and drama outlining innovations in staging, and major dramatic genres - Performance histories which illuminate the ways in which twentieth-century directors have interpreted the comedies to make them accessible to modern audiences