Farce

General notes

Papers from the Themes in Drama International Conference held in 1986 at the University of London and the University of California Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Clowning and slapstick in Aristophanes / by Douglas M. MacDowell -- The dawn of farce / by Gregory Dobrov -- Greek stagecraft and Aristophanes / by N.J. Lowe -- Plautus versus Komoidia / by Victor Castellani -- Racine's Les plaideurs / by Maya Slater -- Nahum Tate's defence of farce / introduced and edited by Peter Holland -- His own triumphantly comic self / by Jim Davis -- Georges Feydeau and the 'serious' farce / by J. Paul Marcoux -- Feydeau and the farcical imperative / by Michael Booth -- From Arlequin to Ubu / by W.D. Howarth -- Grotesque farce in the Weimar Republic / by Christopher Balme -- Yvan Goll / by John Swan -- Farce after existentialism / by Richard L. Homan -- The fool and the clown / by Jeffrey D. Mason -- The cruciform farce in Latin America / by Andrea G. Labinger -- Joe Orton's Jacobean assimilations in What the butler saw / by William Hutchings -- The stereotype betrayed / by Gabrielle Robinson -- On stage, off stage, and backstage with Alan Ayckbourn / by Albert E. Kalson -- Taking farce seriously / by David Wiles