Download or read book The Comic Theatre IV written by Samuel Foote and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Cornubiensis A O written by George Clement Boase and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Cornubiensis written by George Boase and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book The Comic Theatre Vol 4 written by Samuel Foote and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Comic Theatre, Vol. 4: Being a Free Translation of All the Best French Comedies Yes, indeed, it, is (0 much the worfe; and it is that which difiraéts me but however, I need net defpair, lince I have thy afiiltance, my honefi Mall carlil. I know your ready wit and fertile brain furmount all difficulties; and, in award, that thou hall not thy fellow for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art 440 320 BCE written by Alexa Piqueux and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study also aims to refine knowledge of the various connections between Attic comedy and comic vases from South Italy and Sicily (the so-called 'phlyax vases').0After introducing comic texts and comedy-related vase-paintings in the regional contexts, The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE considers the generic features of the comic body, characterized as it is by a specific ugliness and a constant motion. It also explores how costumes -masks, padding, phallus, clothing, accessories- and gestures contribute to the characters' visual identity in relation with speech : it analyzes the cultural, social, aesthetic, and theatrical conventions by which spectators decipher the body. This study thus leads to a re-examination of the modalities of comic mimesis, in particular when addressing sexual codes in cross-dressing scenes which reveal the artifice of the fictional body. It also sheds light on how comic poets make use of the scenic or imaginary representations of the bodies of those who are targets of political, social, or intellectual satire. There is a particular emphasis on body movements, where the book not only deals with body language and the dramatic function of comic gesture, but also with how words confer a kind of poetic and unreal motion to the body.
Download or read book The Development of the Theatre written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of the Theatre written by Allardyce Nicoll M.A. and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London written by Mark S. Dawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines how gentility was portrayed at London's theatres during the early modern era.
Download or read book Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC written by Eric Csapo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry. The traditional view of fourth-century culture is encouraged and sustained by the absence of dramatic texts in anything more than fragments. Until recently, little attention was paid to an enormous array of non-literary evidence attesting, not only the sustained vibrancy of theatrical culture, but a huge expansion of theatre throughout (and even beyond) the Greek world. Epigraphic, historiographic, iconographic and archaeological evidence indicates that the fourth century BC was an age of exponential growth in theatre. It saw: the construction of permanent stone theatres across and beyond the Mediterranean world; the addition of theatrical events to existing festivals; the creation of entirely new contexts for drama; and vast investment, both public and private, in all areas of what was rapidly becoming a major 'industry'. This is the first book to explore all the evidence for fourth century ancient theatre: its architecture, drama, dissemination, staging, reception, politics, social impact, finance and memorialisation.
Download or read book Voltaire s Comic Theatre written by Lilian Willens and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
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Download or read book 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti written by book, music and lyrics by Barry Kleinbort and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Virginia Carpolotti is a devoted widow with loving memories of her recently-deceased husband. Though her love endures, her confidence in him flounders as one shady character after another comes calling for the debt that Ed put in her name, and things really heat up when a mysterious blackmail letter appears.
Download or read book The Comedy of Errors written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mystery Science Theater 3000 4 written by Harold Buchholz and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1940s to the 1960s, Jonah, Crow, and Tom Servo are trapped across three decades of public domain comics! Meanwhile, in the not-to-distant future, mad scientist Kinga Forrester plans to monetize their plight! Comics may never be the same after this, but at least there will be Totino's Pizza Rolls!
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Download or read book Comedy at the Edge written by Richard Zoglin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lenny Bruce overdosed in 1966, he left behind an impressive legacy of edgy, politically charged comedy. Four short years later, a new breed of comic, inspired by Bruce's artistic fearlessness, made telling jokes an art form, forever putting to rest the stereotype of the one-liner borscht belt set. During the 1970s, a small group of brilliant, iconoclastic comedians, led by George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Robert Klein, tore through the country and became as big as rock stars in an era when Saturday Night Live and SCTV were the apotheosis of cool, and the Improv and Catch a Rising Star were the hottest clubs around. That a new wave of innovative comedians, like Steve Martin, Albert Brooks, Robin Williams, and Andy Kauffman followed closely behind only cemented comedy's place as one of the most important art forms of the decade. In Comedy at the Edge, Richard Zoglin explores in depth this ten-year period when comedians stood, with microphone in hand, at the white-hot center of popular culture, stretching the boundaries of the genre, fighting obscenity laws, and becoming the collective voices of their generation. In the process, they revolutionized an art form. Based on extensive interviews with club owners, booking agents, groupies, and the players themselves, Zoglin traces the decade's tumultuous arc in this no-holds barred, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential decades in American popular culture.
Download or read book Bulletin of Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
