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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452626003321

Autore

Scuderi Antonio <1956->

Titolo

Dario Fo [[electronic resource]] : framing, festival, and the folkloric imagination / / Antonio Scuderi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md. ; ; Plymouth, England, : Lexington Books, c2011

ISBN

0-7391-8340-0

0-7391-6922-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Disciplina

852/.914

Soggetti

Theater - Italy - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First paperback edition 2013"--T.p. verso.

Frontispiece: Sketch of the backdrop for The Holy Jester Francis.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dario Fo; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction, Scope, and Methodology; 2 Metacommunication and the Interpretive Frame; 3 Ennobling Folk Culture and Re-Presenting History; 4 The European Carnival from Liminal to Liminoid; 5 The Carnival Frame and Zoomorphic Symbolism; 6 Dario Fo and The Holy Jester Francis; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study of the Italian Nobel playwright and master performer, Dario Fo, will be of interest to scholars and students of popular performance and contemporary European theatre. Dario Fo: Framing, Festival, and the Folkloric Imagination is an interdisciplinary study of Fo's use of framing techniques, based on popular performance and informed by popular culture.