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Product Description: This stimulating introduction to laughter in theatre and performance examines laughter among actors, among audience, and the interaction between the two. Exploring the many uses and effects of laughter in theatre, Eric Weitz considers laughter as a tool of political resonance, as social commentary, and as one of the oldest rhetorical devices...read more
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9781137356086, titled "Theatre & Laughter" | Palgrave Macmillan, November 17, 2015, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: This stimulating introduction to laughter in theatre and performance examines laughter among actors, among audience, and the interaction between the two.
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9781909325562 | Dufour Editions, November 3, 2014, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish performance assembles a range of essays from practitioners, academics, and journalists, all of whom address the attempt to make an audience laugh in various Irish contexts over the past century.
Product Description: 'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and what does this mean for the way we enter the world of a comic text? Addressing these issues, and many more, this is a 'how to' guide to reading comedy from the pages of a dramatic text, with relevance to anything from novels and newspaper columns to billboards and emails...read more
Hardcover:
9780521832601 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 27, 2009), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: 'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'.
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9780521540261 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 27, 2009), cover price $34.99
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9781904505051 | Carysfort Pr, November 15, 2004, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Essays on comedy in contemporary Irish theatre
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