中图分类法:	J832 版次：
著者:	Davis, Jessica Milner.
题名:	Farce / / ,
版次:	[Updated ed.].
出版发行:	出版地： New Brunswick, N.J. : 出版社： Transaction, 出版日期： 2003.
载体形态:	xi, 191 pages ; 23 cm.
附注:	Originally published: London : Methuen, 1978.
内容提要:	"Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more literary comic forms remain clouded, even in the light of contemporary efforts to rehabilitate this type of comedy. Is farce really nothing more than slapstick - the "putting out of candles, kicking down of tables, falling over joynt-stools," as Thomas Shadwell characterized it in the seventeenth century? Or was his contemporary, Nahum Tate correct when he declared triumphantly that "there are no rules to be prescribed for that sort of wit, no patterns to copy; and 'tis altogether the creature of imagination"? Jessica Milner Davis shows farce to be an essential component in both the comedic and tragic traditions." "Farce sets out to explore the territory of what makes farce distinct as a comic genre. Its lowly origins date back to the classic Graeco-Roman theatre; but when formal drama was reborn by the process of elaboration of ritual within the mediaeval Church, the French term "farce" became synonymous with a recognizable style of comic performance. Taking a wide range of farces from the briefest and most basic of fair-ground mountebank performances to fully-fledged five-act structures from the late nineteenth century, the book reveals the patterns of comic plot and counter-plot that are common to all."--BOOK JACKET.
主题词:	Farce.