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Modern British Farce

A Selective Study of British Farce from Pinero to the Present Day

Leslie Smith author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '89

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A study of the popular modern dramatists and the continuity of the farce tradition from Pinero to Travers, the Whitehall team and Orton which examines and questions some of the common assumptions about its nature. Farce techniques are shown to be increasingly used in serious drama.

ISBN: 9781349097616

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

232 pages

1st ed. 1989