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

by Leslie Smith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349097616
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 1989
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The nature of farce; A.W.Pinero and the Court farces; Ben Travers and the Aldwych farces; Brian Rix and the Whitehall farces; post-Whitehall farces; Joe Orton; farce and contemporary Drama I and II.