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Author : Barry Humphries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586056011
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)
Download or read book A Nice Night's Entertainment written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Matthew St Pierre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571620
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as Australian written by Paul Matthew St Pierre and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring postmodern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television, with sixty-seven stage shows, twenty-four film and thirty-four video appearances, thirty-four television series and seventy-one television appearances, and seventy-two audio recordings, but especially what he calls his "second career" as author of twenty-nine books. With an oeuvre that includes novels, biographies, autobiographies, editions, compilations, comic books, poetry, dramatic monologues, sketches, film scripts, and several unclassified works, Humphries is a literary and dramatic artist of considerable significance. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, Paul Matthew St Pierre reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in music halls, Dadaism, and his identity as an Australian.
Author : Barry Humphries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780732903305
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Sandy Stone written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old digger, Sandy Stone, is one of Barry Humphries' enduring but least obtrusive characters. This collection of Sandy's monologues also contains humourous footnotes, appendices, marginalia and cross references to assist interpretation.
Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317372514
Total Pages : 15065 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 15065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Author : Stephen Wagg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134794339
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Because I Tell a Joke or Two written by Stephen Wagg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood. It shows how comedy has been used to sustain, challenge and to change power relationships in society. The contributors, who include Stephen Wagg, Mark Simpson, Stephen Small, Paul Wells and Frances Williams, offer readings of comedy genres, texts and performers in Britain, the United States and Australia. The collection also includes an interview with the comedian Jo Brand. Topics addressed include: * women in British comedies such as Butterflies and Fawlty Towers * the life and times of Viz, from Billy the Fish to the Fat Slags * queer readings of Morecambe and Wise, the male double act * the Marx brothers and Jewish comedy in the United States * black radical comedy in Britain * The Golden Girls, Cheers, Friends and American society.
Author : Fred Metcalf
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849546711
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Literary Quotations written by Fred Metcalf and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're Wilde about Shaw but not Shaw about Wilde, this classic collection of humorous literary quotations is the book for you. Within its pages you will find hundreds of hand-picked quotes in dozens of handy categories. All the big names are here, from Henry James to Clive James (no relation); from Waugh, Evelyn to War, Poets; from Dickens to Dictionaries and Twain to Twitter. Delve here and discover T. S. Eliot's advice on becoming a great writer (it's a bit anal). Find out what the critics said about Virginia Woolf and what Virginia Woolf said about the critics. And check out what it was about Jane Austen that got Mark Twain so hot under the choler! When dirt is dished, fat is chewed, sides are split and chins are wagged, the result, dear reader, is this richly entertaining book.
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415259385
Total Pages : 1150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z written by Eric Partridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Jane Goodall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134156480
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Stage Presence written by Jane Goodall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on examples of live performance in drama, dance, opera and light entertainment, Jane Goodall explores a characteristic as compelling and enigmatic as the performers who demonstrate it. The mysterious quality of ‘presence’ in a performer has strong resonances with the uncanny. It is associated with primal, animal qualities in human individuals, but also has connotations of divinity and the supernatural, relating to figures of evil as well as heroism. Stage Presence traces these themes through theatrical history. This fascinating study also explores the blend of science and spirituality that accompanies the appreciation of human power. Performers display a magnetism of their audiences; they electrify them, exhibit mesmeric command, and develop chemistry in their communication. Case studies include: Josephine Baker, Sarah Bernhardt, Thomas Betterton, David Bowie, Maria Callas, Bob Dylan, David Garrick, Barry Humphries, Henry Irving, Vaslav Nijinsky and Paul Robeson.
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415259378
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I written by Eric Partridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Sally Hunter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805067866
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Humphrey's Corner written by Sally Hunter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little elephant tries out different spots around the house, until he finds the perfect place to play--near his mother.
Author : Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773526440
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)
Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as Australian written by Paul Matthew St. Pierre and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first critical assessment of Humphries' entire oeuvre, especially his career as an author. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, the author reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in the British music hall tradition, Dadaism and grotesquerie. Being Australian has also fundamentally shaped the performer and writer, and the author's defence of Humphries against charges of expatriatism is pertinent to the debate on Australian national identity.
Author : Peter Holloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Australian Drama written by Peter Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical perspectives - Critical perspectives.
Author : Barry Humphries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140231939
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (319 download)
Download or read book More Please written by Barry Humphries and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of our time. More Please, prophetically his first utterance, reveals the man behind the actor. This best-selling book moves from suburban Australia of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to Humphries' international stardom, and his revelations and confessions will astonish his vast audience, being so wildly at odds with all that has gone before.
Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609450957
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Cooking with Fernet Branca written by James Hamilton-Paterson and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels” (Publishers Weekly). Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions––including ice cream made with garlic and the bitter, herb-based liqueur known as Fernet Branca. But Gerald’s idyll is about to be shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-riddled former Soviet republic, as a series of misunderstandings brings this odd couple into ever closer and more disastrous proximity . . . “Provokes the sort of indecorous involuntary laughter that has more in common with sneezing than chuckling. Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris.” —The New York Times
Author : Les Patterson
Publisher : Bolinda Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781743105603
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Traveller's Tool written by Les Patterson and published by Bolinda Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Traveller's Tool is an up market man's man's manual which will find its place next tothe Nivea on every executive's bedside table. When Sir Les Patterson at last agreed to wet his nib and set down on paper his guide for the modern man on the move he made his intention very clear: 'I'm a man's man and I call a spade a spade, so if you're a bluenosed wowser, a raving pillow-biter or a loony old lezzo with a facelike a half- sucked mango, I'd chuck this book away now because in the pages that follow I employ the direct, no holds barred lingo of a serious Australian diplomat at the top of his profession and the height of his sexual powers.' In The Traveller's Tool Australia's most articulate high-flyer lays bare the international lifestyle as he has lived it. The book is not only packed with practical advice, but is also, in Sir Les's own words, 'as funny as buggery'.
Author : John Lahr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520223059
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization written by John Lahr and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's account of a great clown and a great act, this book goes backstage at London's Theatre Royal, with Barry Humphries, and into the weird and wonderful world of his show-stopping creation, Dame Edna Everage. 8 photos.
Author : Colin Chambers
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847140017
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre written by Colin Chambers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-05-14 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in theatre, it includes: - Overviews of major concepts, topics and issues; - Surveys of theatre institutions, countries, and genres; - Biographical entries on key performers, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and composers; - Articles by leading professionals on crafts, skills and disciplines including acting, design, directing, lighting, sound and voice.
