Satire
Author:   Joel Schechter (San Francisco State University, USA) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350140073


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   12 August 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Joel Schechter (San Francisco State University, USA) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Weight:   0.220kg
ISBN:  

9781350140073


ISBN 10:   1350140074
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   12 August 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Series Preface 1) Introduction: What Was Satire? Looking Back at an Endangered Art Form 2) Aristophanes and After: Origins and Legacy of Ancient Athenian Satire 3) John Gay and Swiftian Stage Satire in the Long-Eighteenth Century 4) Joan Littlewood’s Brendan Behan, and the Making of Modern Satire 5) Conclusion: The Endangered Future of Satire References Index

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Joel Schechter is Professor Emeritus of Theatre and Dance at San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author of Durov’s Pig: Clowns, Politics and Theatre; The Pickle Clowns; Satiric Impersonations from Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls; Messiahs of 1933; Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Ages of Walpole and he is the editor of Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook.

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