The film comedy reader / edited by Gregg Rickman.

Table of Contents: “…Hoberman -- The trickster kid: harold llyod's one-reel comedies / Ken Bowers -- The three stooges and the commedia dell' arte / Kathleen Chamberlain -- Laurel and hardy / Charles Barr -- 3. …”

Ancient comedy and reception : essays in honor of Jeffrey Henderson / edited by S. Douglas Olson.

Table of Contents: “…Strepsiades' Latin Voice: Two Renaissance Translations of Aristophanes' CloudsThe Trickster Onstage: The Cunning Slave from Plautus to Commedia dell'Arte; Aristophanes in England, 1500-1660; Exaggerating Terence's Andria: Steele's The Conscious Lovers, Bellamy's The Perjur'd Devotee and Terentian Criticism; Roman Comedy and Renaissance Revenge Drama: Titus Andronicus as Exemplary Text; Molière and the Roman Comic Tradition; Jacob Masen's Rusticus imperans (1657) and Ancient Theater; La recepción de Plauto y Terencio en la literatura española.…”
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Comedy Tonight! V 16 : Comedy Tonight!. by Malarcher, Jay

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; The Commedia dell'arte as the Quintessence of Comedy -- Stanley Vincent Longman; Creating New Comic Stereotypes on the Croatian Postwar/ Transition Stage -- Boris Senker; A Method to the Madness: Laughter Research, Comedy Training, and Improv -- Patrick Bynane; Comedy Tonight ... and Tomorrow: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Laughter through the Ages -- Diana Calderazzo; Performing Molière's Comedies: Challenges and Approaches -- Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian; The Laugh Factory? …”
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Women's comedic art as social revolution : five performers and the lessons of their subversive humor / Domnica Radulescu. by Radulescu, Domnica, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Isabella's "Tricks" : Carnival and Mimicry in Sixteenth Century Italy -- Caterina Biancolelli : Seventeenth Century Trickster and Parisian Coquette -- Franca Rame : Militant Isabella, Feminist Colombina in Twentieth Century Italy -- Contemporary American Colombinas : The Personal, the Public, the Political, the Intimate, and the Comical -- The Heritage of the Commedia dell'Arte for Today's Feminist Theaters, Comedy and Activism, and Radical Acts by Women Artists.…”
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Slapstick and comic performance : comedy and pain / Louise Peacock. by Peacock, Louise

Women's comedic art as social revolution : five performers and the lessons of their subversive humor / Domnica Radulescu. by Radulescu, Domnica, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Isabella's "tricks": carnival and mimicry in sixteenth century Italy -- Caterina Biancolelli: seventeenth century trickster and Parisian coquette -- Franca Rame: militant Isabella, feminist Colombina in twentieth century Italy -- Contemporary American Colombinas: the personal, the public, the intimate, the political, and the comical -- The heritage of the Commedia dell'Arte for today's feminist theaters, comedy and activism, and radical acts by women artists.…”

La dama y Galán Aquiles (El monstruo de los jardines) by Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

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The theatres of Molière / Gerry McCarthy. by McCarthy, Gerry

Table of Contents: “…Street and stage -- Education : Jean-Baptiste Poquelin at the Collège de Clermont -- Farceurs : Old French farce and commedia dell'arte -- Country manners -- L'Ècole des femmes and the form of comedy -- The court dramatist -- Stages -- Scenes and costumes -- Acting -- The town playhouse at the Palais-Royal -- The polite audience -- Behaviour reviewed : Le Misanthrope at the Palais-Royal.…”

The theatres of Molière / Gerry McCarthy. by McCarthy, Gerry

Table of Contents: “…Street and stage -- Education : Jean-Baptiste Poquelin at the Collège de Clermont -- Farceurs : Old French farce and commedia dell'arte -- Country manners -- L'Ècole des femmes and the form of comedy -- The court dramatist -- Stages -- Scenes and costumes -- Acting -- The town playhouse at the Palais-Royal -- The polite audience -- Behaviour reviewed : Le Misanthrope at the Palais-Royal.…”
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L'Avare de Molière (Analyse de l'oeuvre) : Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr. by Meurée, Florence

Table of Contents: “…Molière; L'Avare; Résumé; Les espoirs de mariage; Rivalité entre le père et le fils; La révélation finale; Étude des personnages; Harpagon; Cléante; Mariane; Valère; Élise; Anselme; Clés de lecture; La commedia dell'arte et les lazzis; L'amour et l'argent, moteurs de l'action; Une comédie sur fond de drame; L'Avare, un bon exemple d'intertextualité; Pistes de réflexion; Pour aller plus loin.…”
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Menander to Marivaux : the History of a Comic Structure. by Greene, E. J. H.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter I: The Formula: Structure and Statistics; Chapter II: Sources and Channels; Chapter III: Towards F in France, 1630-1659; Chapter IV: Molière and his Contemporaries; Chapter V: The Conscious Exploitation of F; Chapter VI: Marivaux and his Contemporaries 1715-1760; Chapter VII: The Dissolution of F; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; List of Comedies Considered, 1660-1759; Index; Menander and Greek New Comedy; Plautus; Terence; Commedia umanistica; Commedia erudita; Commedia dell 'arte; French Renaissance Comedy; Trends and Statistics; Corneille.…”
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Popular theatre : a sourcebook / edited by Joel Schechter.

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Theater appreciation / author: Elizabeth Drake-Boyt. by Drake-Boyt, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…-- Definition -- Not for Entertainment Alone -- Both Craft &amp -- Art -- Attributes of Theater -- Theatrical Spaces -- Basic Theater Types -- Historical Background -- Origins of Prehistory -- Earliest Civilizations -- Festival Theater -- Greek Tragedies &amp -- Comedies -- Medieval Festival Theater -- Liturgical Dramas -- Non-Liturgical Plays -- Cycle, Passion, &amp -- Miracle Plays (Pageant Plays) -- Late Medieval &amp -- Early Renaissance: Northern Europe -- Earliest Professional Dramatists: For Gain &amp -- Profit -- Hellenistic Greek &amp -- Roman Empire -- Renaissance Theater -- Opera -- Court Masques -- Commedia dell'arte (Comedy of Professional Actors) -- Elizabethan Dramatists Pre-Shakespeare -- Shakespeare's Theater -- Restoration Dramas -- Romanticism -- Early American Theaters -- American Pioneer Theater -- Melodramas -- Vaudeville -- Minstrel Shows -- Modern Opera -- Operettas -- Modern Theater -- Global Diversity -- Basic Parts of a Modern Theater Building -- Putting on a Play: A Creative Collaboration -- Backstage Superstitions -- Types of Modern Theatrical Companies -- Fully Professional -- Regional &amp -- Repertory -- Community or Civic -- Educational -- Other -- Popular Plays.…”
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Movement for actors / edited by Nicole Potter.

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Theatre history explained / Neil Fraser. by Fraser, Neil, 1958-