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

ISBN-13: 9781349097616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 232 str.

Leslie Smith

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.