Dark ladies
Subtitle: a Mennipean masque and users' guide to the tragi-comic incorporating a new philosophy of the joke
By: Steve McCaffery
Publisher: Chax Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Victoria, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780986264047
Notes: "An explosive meditation on death and laughter cast as both a Menippean masque and a users' guide to the tragi-comic. Mixing erudition with illogicality and vaudeville vulgarity it pays homage to Shakespeare by both erasure and incorporation. Preserving the end rhymes of all 154 of his sonnets, in mirror-reverse order, and embedding stage directions from his comedic and tragic plays, it offers a grotesque repurposing of the bard's great themes."--Back cover.