Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (297 pages)
Disciplina	792.760941
Collana	Palgrave Studies in Comedy
Soggetto topico	Comedy
ISBN	3-030-97351-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Alternative Comedy Now and Then: An Introduction -- 'We were mixing everything up' -- 'Something other than straight stand-up' -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Alternative Comedy Timeline -- References -- Part I: Alternative Comedy Venues -- Chapter 3: The Meccano Club: The Business of Alternative Comedy -- Introduction -- 'Minimal Lighting. PA. No Piano.' -- 'Such a Low Ceiling' -- 'Such a Champion of Alternative Comedy' -- 'A Self-Portrait of the Promoter' -- 'Everyone Got the Same' -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: 'A Local Show for Local People': Alternative Cabaret at the Tower Arts Centre, Winchester, UK, 1981-1984 -- Introduction -- Attempt at a Genealogy -- Performance Archaeology 1, 'Blank Verse for Blank Minds' -- Local Antecedents: A Prehistory -- The Tower -- And Now, What You've All Been Waiting for, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Acts -- Performance Archaeology 2: 'Life' -- Return to Space -- Reflecting: Backwards and Forwards -- Before You Leave -- References -- Chapter 5: The Story of Cabaret A Go Go -- Introduction -- Poster Method and Technique -- The Influence of CAST/New Variety -- The Live Theatre and Newcastle Arts Centre -- Newcastle Arts Centre -- Postscript -- References -- Part II: Performers' Perspectives -- Chapter 6: Trends with Benefits -- Put Your Hands Together for the Opening Act-Introducing the Artistic and Socio-political Contexts 1983-1992 -- First Dates 1983-1984 -- A Gig Is a Gig, Even When It's Unpaid-Impact of the Miner's Strike 1984-1985 -- From the Local to the Empire-Comedy Moves to Bigger Venues 1985-1990 -- The Fault Is in the Stars-1990 Onwards -- Party Time-Red Wedge and the 1987 Election Campaign -- Show, Don't Tell-Snapshot of a Fundraiser April 1990 -- References. Chapter 7: Alternative Cabaret in Conversation -- References -- Part III: Interpreting Alternative Comedy -- Chapter 8: Pressing for No Change? Political Correctness, the Defence of the 'mainstream' and Class in UK Newspaper Responses to the Emergence of 'Alternative Comedy' -- Introduction -- Key Findings of Quantitative Analysis of the UK Press -- What Does Alternative Comedy Mean? -- Is Alternative Comedy Funny? -- Emergence of Press Accounts of Alternative Comedy as Negatively Conceived 'Political Correctness' -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: The Dramatic Script of Alternative Comedy -- Introduction -- The Year Was 1988 -- Our Jaded Militants -- The Politics of Antagonism -- The Politics of Affirmation -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Alternative Comedy Today -- Chapter 10: Alternative Comedy in Finland: Juhani Nevalainen, Musician Not Comedian -- Introduction -- Juhani Nevalainen, Musician Not Comedian -- Invention, Convention and Things That Don't Belong -- Framing the Relation Between Spectator and Performer -- Conclusions: Nevalainen as Comedy, Anticomedy and Metacomedy -- References -- Chapter 11: 'Less Dick Jokes': Women-Only Comedy Line-Ups, Audience Expectations and Negotiating Stereotypes -- Introduction -- Data Collection Methods -- Where have Women-Only Comedy Nights Come from and What Were They Set Up to Achieve? -- How Women Comics Understand Women-Only Comedy Nights as Alternative -- How Audiences Understand Women-Only Comedy Spaces as Alternative -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 12: New Alternative Comedy: Productive Crises c.2005-Present -- Introduction -- Crisis of Creativity and Commercialisation -- Performance-Based Response -- Functions and Effects -- A Crisis of Representation -- Negotiating the Crisis of Representation: FOC It Up Comedy Club -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910616399503321

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

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
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457729803321

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	3-031-21739-X
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910682555103321

Autore	Olson Paul A
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina	822.3/3
Soggetto topico	Comedy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-95852-2 9786611958527 0-8032-1947-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	On historical understandings of Shakespeare's works -- Shakespeare and the invention of grand comic form -- Shakespearean comedic myths -- Biblical story and festival enter Shakespearean comedy -- Empire and conquest in the comedies -- Measure for measure as form, myth, and Scripture.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453884203321