Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism

ISBN 10: 1474247881 / ISBN 13: 9781474247887

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 2016

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Reader in Comedy is a unique, valuable collection of the most important historical essays on comedy, from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Magda Romanska is Professor of Theatre and Media at Emerson College, Boston, MA, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and a Principal Researcher at Harvard metaLAB, where she researches the relationship between art, science, and technology. She is the author of five critically acclaimed scholarly books, including The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012); TheaterMachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context (2020); Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2016); The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, a leading and best-selling handbook of dramaturgy, and she has contributed a chapter to Postdramatic Theatre and Form (Methuen, 2019). As a playwright, she is a recipient of the MacDowell Fellowship, the Mass Council Artist Fellowship for Dramatic Writing, the Apothetae and Lark Theatre Playwriting Fellowship from the Time Warner Foundation, and PAHA Creative Arts Prize. She has taught at Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, and Cornell University.

Alan Ackerman is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he also holds a joint-appointment in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies. His books include Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (2011), Seeing Things, from Shakespeare to Pixar (2011), and The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage (1999). He is the editor of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2011). Since 2005, he has served as Editor of the journal Modern Drama.

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Titel: Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and...
Verlag: Methuen Drama
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Paperback
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