Comedies from a Countryside (1885)
Comedies from a Countryside (1885)

Author: William Outram Tristram

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781104106607

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham
The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham

Author: Newell W. Sawyer

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1512806560

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In the two centuries between the first performance of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. "High comedy," Newell W. Sawyer writes, "views man as a social animal in the midst of his fellows, with customs, conventions, and traditions of his own devising, and prods him gently or mockingly, as he stands confounded by that which he has made." The comedy of manners became, from its prototype, a dramatic category reflecting the life, thought, and manners of upper-class society, faithful to its traditions and philosophy, and as such offers an ideal medium for such a study as Professor Sawyer has here undertaken. The result is a book that is at once entertaining and serious, a study of two centuries of the British stage,

Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723
Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723

Author: Matthew J. McMahan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3030700712

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How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian’s work? How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an early modern context. When a troupe of commedia dell’arte actors were invited by the French crown to establish a theatre in Paris, they found their transition was anything but easy. They had to learn a new language and adjust to French expectations and demands. This study presents their story as a dynamic model of coping with the challenges of migration, whereby the actors made their transnational identity a central focus of their comedy. Relating their work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the border-crossing comedian’s work—including diplomacy, translation, improvisation, and parody—across time.