The death of capital : how creative policy can restore stability / Michael E. Lewitt. by Lewitt, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the 2008 crisis : tragedy or farce? -- The death of capital -- Capital ideas -- Empty promises -- Financialization -- From innovators to undertakers -- Welcome to Jurassic Park -- The road to hell -- Finance after Armageddon -- Conclusion: "This is later."…”
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The plays to 1942 : Mulatto to The sun do move / edited with an introduction by Leslie Catherine Sanders, with Nancy Johnson. by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…Mulatto : a play of the deep south (1930) -- Mule bone : a comedy of negro life (1930) -- Scottsboro, limited : a one-act play (1931) -- Harvest (1934) -- Angelo Herndon Jones (1935) -- Little ham (1935) -- Soul gone home (1936) -- Mother and child : a theatre vignette (1936) -- Emperor of Haiti : a farce in three acts (1936) -- When the jack hollers; or careless love : a negro-folk comedy in three acts (1936) -- Joy to my soul : a farce comedy in three acts (1937) -- Front porch (1938) -- Don't you want to be free? …”
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At whom are we laughing? : humor in Romance language literatures / edited by Zenia Sacks DaSilva and Gregory M. Pell.

Table of Contents: “…From the Romance lands: farce as life-blood of the theatre / Jessica Milner Davis -- French comic heroes / John Parkin -- The subversion of empire as farce in Fernao Mendes Pinto's Peregrinaçao / Steven Gonzagowski -- The transgressive ethics of the trickster in late medieval and post-Reformation French farce / Bruce Hayes -- A case of medical satire as therapy in colonial Peru: Diente del Parnaso by Juan del Valle y Caviedes / Paul W. …”
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Inside insurgency : violence, civilians, and revolutionary group behavior / Claire Metelits. by Metelits, Claire

Table of Contents: “…Insurgents and civilian-targeted violence -- Rivals and the logic of insurgent violence -- "The elephant is not yet dead" : the reform of the SPLA -- From Jekyll to Hyde : the transformation of the FARC -- Freedom fighters or terrorists? The ongoing transformations of the PKK -- The theoretical and practical implications of active rivalry.…”
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Shakespeare, Brecht, and the intercultural sign / Antony Tatlow. by Tatlow, Antony

Table of Contents: “…Historicizing the unconscious in Plautine and Shakespearean farce -- 5. Coriolanus and the historical text -- 6. …”
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Styling sagaciousness: oh great no! / Joseph Nechvatal. by Nechvatal, Joseph

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Machiavelliana : the living Machiavelli in modern mythologies / by Damian Grace, Michael Jackson. by Grace, Damian

Table of Contents: “…-- The hand of Satan -- Machiavelli in management: the enterprise of Sir Antony Jay, Ltd 78 -- Theory M for Machiavelli -- The science of Machiavellianism -- Niccolo of the apes, or aping Machiavelli -- The perennial pairing: Machiavelli and power -- The reluctant leader: leadership and war -- Machiavelli ubiquitous -- The second time is farce.…”
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Melodrama / Daniel Gerould, guest editor ; Jeanine Parisier Plottel, general editor.

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Hear him roar : a novel / Andrew Wingfield. by Wingfield, Andrew, 1966-

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Quentin Tarantino : life at the extremes / Aaron Barlow. by Barlow, Aaron, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Tarantino in the world of ideas -- History and a world of influence -- Mayhem and farce, the world and the movies -- Reservoir dogs : stuck in the middle with Nietzsche -- Pulp fiction : comedy, structure, and consequence -- Jackie Brown : music, metadiegesis, and meaning -- Kill Bill : an extreme fairy tale -- Death proof : making movies -- Inglourious basterds : spelling it out -- Conclusion.…”

Shaw and the nineteenth-century theater. by Meisel, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Dramatic genre and the drama of ideas: Preamble to genre -- Courtesans and Magdalens -- Romantic comedy -- Melodrama -- Domestic comedy -- Farce -- Irish romance -- Discussion play -- Christian melodrama and Christmas pantomime -- Historical drama -- Extravaganza -- pt.4. …”

Death beyond disavowal : the impossible politics of difference / Grace Kyungwon Hong. by Hong, Grace Kyungwon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: neoliberal disavowal and the politics of the impossible -- Fun with death and dismemberment: irony, farce, and nationalist memorialization -- On being wrong and feeling right: Cherrie Moraga and Audre Lorde -- Blues futurity and queer improvisation -- Bringing out the dead: black feminism's prophetic vision -- Epilogue: life, death, and everything in between.…”
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Cutting edges : postmodern critical essays on eighteenth-century satire / edited by James E. Gill.

Table of Contents: “…Comedy, satire, or farce? or the generic difficulties of Restoration dramatic satire / Deborah Payne -- The semiotics of Restoration satire / Rose Zimbardo -- Ideology, sex, and satire : the case of Thomas Shadwell / Jean Marsden -- The monster libell : power, politics, and the press in Thomas Otway's The poet's complaint of his muse / Jessica Munns -- Satiric embodiments : Butler, Swift, Sterne / Richard Braverman -- The mechanics of transport : sublimity and the imagery of abjection in Rochester, Swift, and Burke / Allen Dunn -- Credit exhausted : satire and scarcity in the 1690s / Robert Markley.…”

Reeling with laughter : American film comedies--from anarchy to mockumentary / Michael V. Tueth. by Tueth, Michael

Wilder's classic one acts / by Thornton Wilder. by Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

Taking Humour Seriously. by Palmer, Jerry

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; INTRODUCTION; JOKING RELATIONSHIPS; CLOWNS AND RELIGION; MEDIEVAL COMEDY: FOOLS AND FOLLY; FUNCTION AND FUNCTIONALISM; GENDER AND HUMOUR; FREUD; INCONGRUITY; INCONGRUITY AND DISCURSIVE CUES; HUMOUR AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE; COMEDY, FARCE AND NEO-CLASSICISM; MANNERS, WIT AND THE REFORM OF LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION AND HUMOUR; PERFORMANCE AND OFFENCE; CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Mirrors of our playing : paradigms and presences in modern drama / Thomas R. Whitaker. by Whitaker, Thomas R.

Table of Contents: “…Playing with the playboy: Synge and tradition -- The music of serious farce: Wilde, Shaw, Orton, and Stoppard -- Communities of heartbreak: from Chekhov and Shaw to Friel and Smith -- Playing hell: Sartre, Beckett, Genet, and Pinter -- The presence of Byron -- Wham, bam, thank you Sam -- Soyinka's roads to the abyss -- Brook and the purpose of playing -- Afterword: Angels in america -- Works cited -- Index.…”

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.…”

Volatile social movements and the origins of terrorism : the radicalization of change / Christine Sixta Rinehart. by Rinehart, Christine Sixta, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the radicalization of social movements and political parties -- Revolutionizing terrorism: the radicalization of Hasan al-Banna and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood -- Radicalizing Ekin: the transformation of Euzkadi ta Askatasuna (ETA) -- Forsaking Colombia: the creation and radicalization of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) -- Ceylon tigers: the creation and radicalization of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- Conclusion and analysis.…”
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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.…”
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