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Author : David Rogers
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Comedy
ISBN : 0871296144
Author : Roger Foss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849436021
It seems a long way from Moliere to Ray Cooney. There are immense distances between the worlds of Aristophanes, Plautus, Georges Feydeau, Ben Travers, Joe Orton and Basil Fawlty. But as one of the oldest genres in the history of the theatre, farce bridges the gaps by generating gales of helpless belly laughter across the generations. Inspired by John Mortimer’s observation that farce is 'tragedy played at a thousand revolutions a minute', theatre critic Roger Foss embarks on a lightning tour of the rib-tickling world of confused characters, absurd situations, ruined reputations, sexual innuendo and bravura comic acting and finds out if farce really is a force to be reckoned with in the 21st century. The latest addition to the Oberon Masters series, May The Farce Be With You celebrates the great creators and performers of farce, notably master farceur Ray Cooney, who celebrates his 80th birthday in 2012, in essays that will inform and entertain both the aficionado and anyone with a sense of humour.
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781683774
Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory. The election of Donald Trump only confirms the bankruptcy of a liberal order on its last legs. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.
Author : Hank Hanegraaff
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781418515096
Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "fairy tale for grown-ups." The author uses his own Memory Dynamics to make it easy for Christians to speak intelligently about evolution and speak persuasively about the Creator.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Scott Skipper
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781301250769
Author : Stephen Leacock,Basil Macdonald Hastings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Canadian drama
ISBN : UOM:39015063736139
Author : Mr. Hook (James)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023074842
Author : Ray Cooney,John Chapman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822208326
THE STORY: The scene is the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, where Crouch (the well-meaning innocent) struggles to keep things on an even keel despite the energetic philandering of his partner. At the moment, Bodley is trying to sec
Author : James Bruton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017077379
Author : George Colman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017659788
Author : Joseph Stirling COYNE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017077399
Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351520232
Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more literary comic forms remain clouded, even in the light of contemporary efforts to rehabilitate this type of comedy. Is farce really nothing more than slapstick-the "putting out of candles, kicking down of tables, falling over joynt-stools," as Thomas Shadwell characterized it in the seventeenth century? Or was his contemporary, Nahum Tate correct when he declared triumphantly that "there are no rules to be prescribed for that sort of wit, no patterns to copy; and 'tis altogether the creature of imagination"? Davis shows farce to be an essential component in both the comedic and tragic traditions. Farce sets out to explore the territory of what makes farce distinct as a comic genre. Its lowly origins date back to the classic Graeco-Roman theatre; but when formal drama was reborn by the process of elaboration of ritual within the mediaeval Church, the French term "farce" became synonymous with a recognizable style of comic performance. Taking a wide range of farces from the briefest and most basic of fair-ground mountebank performances to fully-fledged five-act structures from the late nineteenth century, the book reveals the patterns of comic plot and counter-plot that are common to all. The result is a novel classification of farce-plots, which serves to clarify the differences between farce and more literary comic forms and to show how quickly farce can shade into other styles of humor. The key is a careful balance between a revolt against order and propriety, and a kind of Realpolitik which ultimately restores the social conventions under attack. A complex array of devices in such things as framing, plot, characterization, timing and acting style maintain the delicate balance. Contemporary examples from the London stage bring the discussion u
Author : Mrs. HALLETT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019361753
Author : Hal Foster
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781788738118
Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order that laughs away its own contradictions? How to mock leaders who thrive on the absurd? And why, in any event, offer more outrage to a media economy that feeds on the same? Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in What Comes after Farce?, delves into recent developments in art, criticism, and fiction under the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. Concerned first with the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, conspiracy, and kitsch, he moves on to consider the neoliberal makeover of aesthetic forms and art institutions during the same period. A final section surveys signal transformations in art, film, and writing. Among the phenomena explored are machine vision (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface), operational images (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information that pervades our everyday lives. If all this sounds dire, it is. In many respects we look out on a world that has moved, not only politically but also technologically, beyond our control. Yet Foster also sees possibility in the current debacle: the possibility to pressure the cracks in this order, to turn emergency into change.
Author : Walley Chamberlain Oulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590740240