Title: Farce.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Farce.
Contents: Clowning and slapstick in Aristophanes / Douglas M. MacDowell -- The dawn of farce: Aristophanes / Gregory Dobrov -- Greek stagecraft and Aristophanes / N.J. Lowe -- Plautus versus Komoidia: popular farce at Rome / Victor Castellani -- Racine's Les Plaideurs -- a tragedian's farce / Maya Slater -- Nahum Tate's defence of farce / Peter Holland -- His own triumphantly comic self: self and self-consciousness in nineteenth-century English farce / Jim Davis -- Georges Feydeau and the 'serious' farce / J. Paul Marcoux -- Feydeau and the farcical imperative / Michael Booth -- From Arlequin to Ubu: farce as anti-theatre / W.D. Howarth -- Grotesque farce in the Weimer republic / Christipher Balme -- Yvan Goll: profane and sacred farce / John Swan -- Farce after existentialism: Pirandello's It Is So! (If You Think So) / Richard L. Homan -- The fool and the clown: the ironic vision of George S. Kaufman / Jeffrey D. Mason -- The cruciform farce in Latin America: two plays / Andrea G. Labinger -- Joe Orton's Jacobean assimilations in What the Butler Saw / William Hutchings -- The stereotype betrayed: Tom Stoppard's farce / Gabrielle Robinson -- On stage, off stage, and backstage with Alan Ayckbourn / Albert E. Kalson -- Taking farce seriously: recent critical approaches to Plautus / David Wiles.