Here come the clowns
Subtitle: a cavalcade of comedy from antiquity to the present
By: Lowell Swortzell ; illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
Contributors: Hodges, C. Walter 1909-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Clowns -- Biography.; Comedians -- Biography.; Comedy.; Clowns.; Comedians.; Comedy.
Description: Discusses comedians and the use of comedy throughout history from ancient Greek drama through traveling shows to present day radio and television.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [233]-236.
Includes index.