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Theater (1992) 23 (3): 30–38.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Julie Siege Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 COMEDY UNDER THE NEW MOON: THE RISE AND
FALL OF CABARET AT THEATRE DE LA JEUNE LUNE...
Journal Article
Theater (1992) 23 (3): 79–83.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Alexis Greene Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 THE NEW COMEDY OF MANNERS
ALEXIS GREENE
he comedy of manners is often the dramatic form of have erotic...
Journal Article
Theater (1992) 23 (2): 61–81.
Published: 01 May 1992
..., to Felicia, A Third Worldist
onstage, at least before a mixed argue about. And it is our conviction A Mysterious Passenger
audience. When we chose to treat the that a peaceful solution depends on A Stewardess
topic of the Mideast in a comedy, it both peoples’ willingness to look to Tami...
Journal Article
Theater (1969) 2 (2): 40–55.
Published: 01 May 1969
...Morton Lichter Copyright © by yale/theatre 1969 1969 CAFETERIA STYLE
A Comedy in Two Scenes
by Morton Lichter
Cafeteria Style was first performed at the Theatre-in-Progress Workshop of the Berkshire Theatre
Festival, Stockbridge, Massachusetts...
Journal Article
Theater (1987) 18 (3): 21–29.
Published: 01 November 1987
...John Towsen Copyright © THEATER 1987 1987 ZEN AND THE HEART OF PHYSICAL
COMEDY: THE REVENGE OF
IMURPHY’S LAW...
Journal Article
Theater (1974) 5 (3): 35–49.
Published: 01 November 1974
... Copyright © by yale/theater 1974 1974 Comedies of Family Life
(Volume One costs one penny)
Comedy I (The action takes place on the porch. Enter Mrs. Muckley.)
Act I
Scene One MOTHER...
Journal Article
Theater (1977) 8 (2_and_3): 167–169.
Published: 01 May 1977
...Lawrence I. Eilenberg
Comfortable Lies
By Lawrence I. Eilenberg
Comedians
Trevor Griffith
Directed by Mike Nichols
The Music Box, New York, N.Y.
If poetry is what’s lost in translation, then laugh may simply be a matter of his self-assigned
comedy must be what’s lost...
Journal Article
Theater (1976) 7 (3): 7–15.
Published: 01 November 1976
...) of comedy, and they simply did not know
1836-48:lived mostly abroad what to make of it. There was hardly any
plot at all, the action developed very
1842: Dead Souls,' The Overcoat...
Journal Article
Theater (1981) 12 (2): 66–71.
Published: 01 May 1981
... as negligible star vehicles.
But the printed word outlasts the most vivid performance.
After Nestroy’s death in 1862, the irregular brilliance in his writing
The comedies...
Journal Article
Theater (1981) 12 (2): 43–48.
Published: 01 May 1981
... Supper (1970); Lulu (197 1); The Bmitch-
ed (1974); 77ze Frontiers of Farce (1977); Laughter (1978); Antonio
(1979); Red Noses, BlaGk Death (1980). Barnes is a comic playwright
in the most contemporary and dramatic sense. Comedy out of
adversity as Durrenmatt indicates in his essay...
Journal Article
Theater (1992) 23 (3): 52–61.
Published: 01 November 1992
...John Towsen Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 MO11 ERE "A 1' ITALl EN N E : "
DARIO FO AT THE COMEDIE FRANCAISE
JOHN TOWSEN...
Journal Article
Theater (1980) 11 (2): 35–53.
Published: 01 May 1980
... Kott
I the husband rediscovers his wife in the guise of the Stranger. But
In the first scene of The Misanthrope Alceste rushes into in A Doll House the traditional signs of tragedy and comedy are
Celimene's drawing...
Journal Article
Theater (1981) 13 (1): 72–76.
Published: 01 February 1981
....
more than a painstaking revival of a classic Just as Titus disguises himself in order
Genuine comedy. It is a witty re-examination of our to win favor with society, Nestroy - who
expectations of comedy. It delights...
Journal Article
Theater (1997) 28 (1): 120–122.
Published: 01 February 1997
... has a number of strong points, not moments from the work as a whole.
least in its numerous well chosen and generally Since comedy as a genre was based on
well reproduced illustrations. It reflects the original plots and was more self-referential than...
Journal Article
Theater (1979) 10 (2): 104–107.
Published: 01 May 1979
...• Compare The Bourgeois Gentleman and Tartuffe, two presumed
comedies in which Moliere ridicules follies of his time by showing
portant points that might be missed, not trivial ones that can't...
Journal Article
Theater (1992) 23 (3): 62–66.
Published: 01 November 1992
... closely at Chaplin’s films one notices how often
chronicled the efforts of the powerless to the comedy was rooted in life-or-death situations. Chaplin
undermine the political, economic, and social would often reshoot his scenes to heighten the sense...
Journal Article
Theater (1973) 4 (3): 69–81.
Published: 01 November 1973
... from the depressing and uninspired offerings of most of
70 today's Broadway.
Musical comedy had its greatest flowering during the twenties. As an
entertainment form. it was a polyglot embracing many kinds of
expression. Perhaps the most all-around successful...
Journal Article
Theater (1974) 5 (3): 6–9.
Published: 01 November 1974
... and wrote a dozen or more short plays which he then printed
and published himself on his own hand-printing press. A first-edition
of Cockroaches dated 1893 survives with the author's own an-
nouncement that it is Volume I of his comedies.9 His...
Journal Article
Theater (1988) 20 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 February 1988
...
11
perusal and approval and gloire. After Moliere’s and Racine’s its own slogan, and is fitting that it belongs to Voltaire. (It
superhuman characters, fitted for a king, set tone and form should not however be taken at face value as his opinion. Vol-
for comedy and tragedy, playwrights used...
Journal Article
Theater (1976) 7 (2): 25–32.
Published: 01 May 1976
... stage. Let us take, for example, the heroes
share my experience with the young. of our good comedies: Famusov, Skalozub,
Molchalin, Repetilov, Khlestakov, the
A play, be it a drama or a comedy...