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Modern British Farce: A Selective Study of British Farce from Pinero to the Present Day

By Leslie Smith (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1989
ISBN
978-1-349-09761-6, 978-1-349-09759-3
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-09759-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12474677 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 232\242
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Poetry and Poetics; Nineteenth-Century Literature;

Description

A study of the popular modern dramatists and the continuity of the farce tradition from Pinero to Travers, the Whitehall team and Orton which examines and questions some of the common assumptions about its nature. Farce techniques are shown to be increasingly used in serious drama.

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