Alternative Comedy Now and Then : Critical Perspectives / / edited by Oliver Double, Sharon Lockyer
| Alternative Comedy Now and Then : Critical Perspectives / / edited by Oliver Double, Sharon Lockyer |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Disciplina | 792.760941 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Comedy |
| Soggetto topico |
Comedy
Performing arts Theater Actors Comedy Studies Theatre and Performance Arts Performers and Practitioners |
| ISBN |
9783030973513
3030973514 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Alternative Comedy Now and Then: An Introduction -- 2. Alternative Comedy Timeline -- 3. The Meccano Club: The Business of Alternative Comedy -- 4. 'A Local Show for Local People: Alternative Cabaret at the Tower Art Centre, Winchester, UK, 1981-1984 -- 5. The Story of Cabaret A Go Go -- 6. Trends with Benefits -- 7. Alternative Cabaret in Conversation -- 8. Pressing for no change? Political Correctness, the defence of the 'mainstream' and class in UK newspaper responses to the emergence of 'Alternative Comedy' -- 9. The Dramatic Script of Alternative Comedy -- 10. Alternative Comedy in Finland: Juhani Nevalainen, Musician Not Comedian -- 11. "Less Dick Jokes": Women-only comedy line-ups, audience expectations and negotiating stereotypes -- 12. New Alternative Comedy: Productive Crises c.2005-Present. |
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Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages : Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices / / by Anna T. Litovkina, Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Péter Barta, Katalin Vargha, Wolfgang Mieder
| Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages : Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices / / by Anna T. Litovkina, Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Péter Barta, Katalin Vargha, Wolfgang Mieder |
| Autore | Tothne Litovkina Anna |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Disciplina |
398.9
398.909 |
| Soggetto topico |
Lexicology
Semiotics Comedy Prose literature Lexicolopgy / Vocabulary Comedy Studies Narrative Text and Prose |
| ISBN |
9783030890629
3030890627 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: The Comparative Study of Anti-Proverbs: An Introduction -- Part I: Types of Proverb Alterations -- Chapter 2: Addition in Anti-Proverbs -- Chapter 3: Omission in Anti-Proverbs -- Chapter 4: Substitution in Anti-Proverbs -- Chapter 5: Blending of Proverbs -- Part II: Anti-proverbs and Verbal Humor -- Chapter 6: Punning in Anti-Proverbs -- Chapter 7: Further Humor Devices as Used in Anti-Proverbs -- Chapter 8: Summary and Implications for Further Research. |
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Tothne Litovkina Anna
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The Art of Dying : 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying / / edited by Gareth Richard Schott
| The Art of Dying : 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying / / edited by Gareth Richard Schott |
| Autore | Schott Gareth Richard |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Disciplina | 306.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture - Study and teaching
Popular culture Digital media Games Comedy Motion pictures Television broadcasting Visual Culture Popular Culture Digital and New Media Games Studies Comedy Studies Film and Television Studies |
| ISBN |
9783031352171
3031352173 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1 – Expressions of Grief: Creative Processing and Reflections -- Chapter 2 - The ‘Creative’ Grief of Heart of a Dog and Dick Johnson Is Dead -- Chapter 3 - Mediated Suicide in 13 Reasons Why: An Argument for Caution in Television Portrayals of Suicide -- Chapter 4 - Absent Presence: Exploiting the Temporal Flexibility of Graphic Memoir -- Chapter 5 -Retain or Delete? Intentions for Social Network Accounts After Death -- Chapter 6 - “Okay? No, not okay:” Does Romance Deliver a Good Death for Terminally Ill Young People? -- Chapter 7 - Death Is Not the End (of the Game): So, What Is It? -- Chapter 8 - The Live Reality of Death: Representations of Dying and the Dead in Documentary Theatre -- Chapter 9 - How Soon Is Too Soon? Death as Comedy. |
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Schott Gareth Richard
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As she likes it : Shakespeare's unruly women / / Penny Gay
| As she likes it : Shakespeare's unruly women / / Penny Gay |
| Autore | Gay Penny <1945, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Collana | Gender in performance |
| Soggetto topico |
Feminism and literature - England - History - 16th century
Feminism and literature - England - History - 17th century Women and literature - England - History - 16th century Women and literature - England - History - 17th century Gender identity in literature Sex role in literature Women in literature Comedy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-86237-7
1-280-33840-7 9786610338405 0-203-30301-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; TWELFTH NIGHT Desire and its discontents; AS YOU LIKE IT Who's who in the greenwood; THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Avoiding the feminist challenge; MEASURE FOR MEASURE Sex and power in a patriarchal society; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING A kind of merry war; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454974603321 |
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As she likes it : Shakespeare's unruly women / / Penny Gay
| As she likes it : Shakespeare's unruly women / / Penny Gay |
| Autore | Gay Penny <1945, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Collana | Gender in performance |
| Soggetto topico |
Feminism and literature - England - History - 16th century
Feminism and literature - England - History - 17th century Women and literature - England - History - 16th century Women and literature - England - History - 17th century Gender identity in literature Sex role in literature Women in literature Comedy |
| ISBN |
1-134-86236-9
1-134-86237-7 1-280-33840-7 9786610338405 0-203-30301-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; TWELFTH NIGHT Desire and its discontents; AS YOU LIKE IT Who's who in the greenwood; THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Avoiding the feminist challenge; MEASURE FOR MEASURE Sex and power in a patriarchal society; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING A kind of merry war; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779966603321 |
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As she likes it : Shakespeare's unruly women / / Penny Gay
| As she likes it : Shakespeare's unruly women / / Penny Gay |
| Autore | Gay Penny <1945-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994 |
| Descrizione fisica | xii,208p |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Collana | Gender in performance |
| Soggetto topico |
Feminism and literature - England - History - 16th century
Feminism and literature - England - History - 17th century Women and literature - England - History - 16th century Women and literature - England - History - 17th century Gender identity in literature Sex role in literature Women in literature Comedy |
| ISBN |
1-134-86236-9
1-134-86237-7 1-280-33840-7 0415096952 0415096960 (pbk.) 9786610338405 0-203-30301-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; TWELFTH NIGHT Desire and its discontents; AS YOU LIKE IT Who's who in the greenwood; THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Avoiding the feminist challenge; MEASURE FOR MEASURE Sex and power in a patriarchal society; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING A kind of merry war; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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As you like it / / edited by Cynthia Marshall [[electronic resource]]
| As you like it / / edited by Cynthia Marshall [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Shakespeare William <1564-1616, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxii, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Collana | Shakespeare in production |
| Soggetto topico |
Fathers and daughters
Exiles Comedy |
| ISBN |
0-511-19289-4
1-139-16457-0 1-316-08542-2 1-280-47763-6 0-511-19502-8 0-511-19568-0 0-511-19359-9 0-511-31407-8 0-511-19433-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PRODUCTIONS; INTRODUCTION; Peculiarities of the play as a performance piece; Seventeenth century; Charles Johnson's 'Love in a Forest'; Eighteenth century: romping actresses and the struggle for decorum; Dora Jordan: 'spirit of enjoyment'; Into the nineteenth century: opera, spectacle, and a new Rosalind; Kemble's revisions; Macready's restorations; Helena Faucit: Rosalind 'ethereally embodied'; Charles Kean and the growth of pictorial staging
Charlotte Cushman: a Tiresian Ganymede Samuel Phelps and the conventional Jaques; Victorian excesses; Scenic illusionism: Hare-Kendal's stage grass and Sullivan's stuffed stag; Moral entertainment; The feminine ideal; Other Rosalinds; Augustin Daly's triumph; Turn of the century: transition to a freer Arden; Oscar Asche's greenhouse; Nigel Playfair's break with scenic illusionism; Open-air Arden; The play settles in; Early film versions; Foreign productions; Vanessa Redgrave: 'a Rosalind to remember'; Clifford Williams: sexless love; Experiments in the 1960's and 1970's; BBC television Peter Stein's journey to Arden Adrian Noble and gender-bending in the 1980's; Christine Edzard's dystopic Arden; Cheek by Jowl; Shakespeare's Globe; LIST OF CHARACTERS; AS YOU LIKE IT; ACT 1, SCENE 1; ACT 1, SCENE 2; ACT 1, SCENE 3; ACT 2; ACT 3, SCENE 1; ACT 3, SCENE 2; ACT 3, SCENE 3; ACT 3, SCENE 4; ACT 3, SCENE 5; ACT 3, SCENE 6; ACT 4, SCENE 1; ACT 4, SCENE 2; ACT 4, SCENE 3; ACT 5, SCENE 1; ACT 5, SCENE 2; ACT 5, SCENE 3; ACT 5, SCENE 4; [EPILOGUE]; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Shakespeare William <1564-1616, >
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As you like it / / edited by Cynthia Marshall [[electronic resource]]
| As you like it / / edited by Cynthia Marshall [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Shakespeare William <1564-1616, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxii, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Collana | Shakespeare in production |
| Soggetto topico |
Fathers and daughters
Exiles Comedy |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Pastoral drama
Comedies. |
| ISBN |
0-511-19289-4
1-139-16457-0 1-316-08542-2 1-280-47763-6 0-511-19502-8 0-511-19568-0 0-511-19359-9 0-511-31407-8 0-511-19433-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PRODUCTIONS; INTRODUCTION; Peculiarities of the play as a performance piece; Seventeenth century; Charles Johnson's 'Love in a Forest'; Eighteenth century: romping actresses and the struggle for decorum; Dora Jordan: 'spirit of enjoyment'; Into the nineteenth century: opera, spectacle, and a new Rosalind; Kemble's revisions; Macready's restorations; Helena Faucit: Rosalind 'ethereally embodied'; Charles Kean and the growth of pictorial staging
Charlotte Cushman: a Tiresian Ganymede Samuel Phelps and the conventional Jaques; Victorian excesses; Scenic illusionism: Hare-Kendal's stage grass and Sullivan's stuffed stag; Moral entertainment; The feminine ideal; Other Rosalinds; Augustin Daly's triumph; Turn of the century: transition to a freer Arden; Oscar Asche's greenhouse; Nigel Playfair's break with scenic illusionism; Open-air Arden; The play settles in; Early film versions; Foreign productions; Vanessa Redgrave: 'a Rosalind to remember'; Clifford Williams: sexless love; Experiments in the 1960's and 1970's; BBC television Peter Stein's journey to Arden Adrian Noble and gender-bending in the 1980's; Christine Edzard's dystopic Arden; Cheek by Jowl; Shakespeare's Globe; LIST OF CHARACTERS; AS YOU LIKE IT; ACT 1, SCENE 1; ACT 1, SCENE 2; ACT 1, SCENE 3; ACT 2; ACT 3, SCENE 1; ACT 3, SCENE 2; ACT 3, SCENE 3; ACT 3, SCENE 4; ACT 3, SCENE 5; ACT 3, SCENE 6; ACT 4, SCENE 1; ACT 4, SCENE 2; ACT 4, SCENE 3; ACT 5, SCENE 1; ACT 5, SCENE 2; ACT 5, SCENE 3; ACT 5, SCENE 4; [EPILOGUE]; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Shakespeare William <1564-1616, >
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As you like it / / edited by Cynthia Marshall
| As you like it / / edited by Cynthia Marshall |
| Autore | Shakespeare William <1564-1616.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxii, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MarshallCynthia |
| Collana | Shakepeare in production |
| Soggetto topico |
Fathers and daughters
Exiles Comedy |
| ISBN |
9780511192890
0511192894 9781139164573 1139164570 9781316085424 1316085422 9781280477638 1280477636 9780511195020 0511195028 9780511195686 0511195680 9780511193590 0511193599 9780511314070 0511314078 9780511194337 0511194331 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PRODUCTIONS; INTRODUCTION; Peculiarities of the play as a performance piece; Seventeenth century; Charles Johnson's 'Love in a Forest'; Eighteenth century: romping actresses and the struggle for decorum; Dora Jordan: 'spirit of enjoyment'; Into the nineteenth century: opera, spectacle, and a new Rosalind; Kemble's revisions; Macready's restorations; Helena Faucit: Rosalind 'ethereally embodied'; Charles Kean and the growth of pictorial staging
Charlotte Cushman: a Tiresian Ganymede Samuel Phelps and the conventional Jaques; Victorian excesses; Scenic illusionism: Hare-Kendal's stage grass and Sullivan's stuffed stag; Moral entertainment; The feminine ideal; Other Rosalinds; Augustin Daly's triumph; Turn of the century: transition to a freer Arden; Oscar Asche's greenhouse; Nigel Playfair's break with scenic illusionism; Open-air Arden; The play settles in; Early film versions; Foreign productions; Vanessa Redgrave: 'a Rosalind to remember'; Clifford Williams: sexless love; Experiments in the 1960's and 1970's; BBC television Peter Stein's journey to Arden Adrian Noble and gender-bending in the 1980's; Christine Edzard's dystopic Arden; Cheek by Jowl; Shakespeare's Globe; LIST OF CHARACTERS; AS YOU LIKE IT; ACT 1, SCENE 1; ACT 1, SCENE 2; ACT 1, SCENE 3; ACT 2; ACT 3, SCENE 1; ACT 3, SCENE 2; ACT 3, SCENE 3; ACT 3, SCENE 4; ACT 3, SCENE 5; ACT 3, SCENE 6; ACT 4, SCENE 1; ACT 4, SCENE 2; ACT 4, SCENE 3; ACT 5, SCENE 1; ACT 5, SCENE 2; ACT 5, SCENE 3; ACT 5, SCENE 4; [EPILOGUE]; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Between Laughter and Satire : Aspects of the Historical Study of Humour / / by Conal Condren
| Between Laughter and Satire : Aspects of the Historical Study of Humour / / by Conal Condren |
| Autore | Condren Conal |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 238 p.) |
| Disciplina |
306
792.23 |
| Soggetto topico |
Comedy
Television broadcasting Comedy Studies Television Studies |
| ISBN |
9783031217395
303121739X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- Part I Laughter and the Study of Humour -- 2 Laughter and the Formation of a Concept of Humour -- 3 The Universality and the Genealogy of Humour -- Part II Method and Its Limits in the Historical Study of Humour -- 4 Context and Intention -- 5 Translation and Reception -- Part III Defining Satire and Satiric Humour -- 6 Definition by Dictionary, Origin and Implications -- 7 Definition by Adjacent Terms, Genre and Satiric Definition -- Part IV Satiric Humour in Popular Culture: The Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister Television Satires -- 8 Theory and the Absent Political System -- 9 The Satiric Presence of Political Discourse -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography. |
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Condren Conal
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