Comedy Tonight!
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Comedy Tonight!
（Theatre symposium : a publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, v. 16）
Southeastern Theatre Conference , University of Alabama Press, c2008
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Essays from the 16th annual SETC Theatre Symposium held at the historic Hotel Morgan in Morgantown, West Virginia, in April 2007
Statement of responsibility from p. [2] of cover
Includes bibliographical references
収録内容
- 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 factory? : 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
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内容説明
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 children's table...even in the world of scholarship.The essays gathered in Volume 16 of the annual journal ""Theatre Symposium"" illustrate well the range of material that falls under the heading 'comedy' as it is played on stage.Stanley Longman's essay on ""The Commedia dell'Arte as the Quintessence of Comedy"" introduces us to the inhabitants of 'Commediatown,' character types who are descendents of the Greeks and ancestors, it seems, of almost everyone who came after. Boris Senker, an eyewitness to Croatia's evolution from communism to democracy, reports on the all-too-real 'Commedia' stereotypes that have found their way onto the stage in his homeland.Other essays address the improvisational nature of 'Commedia'; the roots of laughter and the expectations inherent in presenting 'old schtick' to a new generation; comedic technique, verbal and physical, in Moliere; the use of the macabre to create humor in the ""Theatre du Grand Guignol""; the story of Henry Fielding, the theatre practitioner most responsible for the British government's crackdown on subversive material, via the Licensing Act of 1737; Beckett's theatrical connections to the comedy theory of Henri Bergson; and do-it-yourself (DIY) comedy - happenings, situations, gatherings - as practiced in British stand-up comedy. Volume 16 provides a glimpse into the possibilities for comedy on the stage. If the past examples allow for extrapolation into the future, the position of comedy as a means of communicating problems and solutions for society's woes is remarkably sound.
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