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Author : David Rogers
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871296146
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (961 download)
Download or read book May the Farce be with You written by David Rogers and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Foss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849436029
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)
Download or read book May the Farce Be With You written by Roger Foss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems a long way from Moliere to Ray Cooney. There are immense distances between the worlds of Aristophanes, Plautus, Georges Feydeau, Ben Travers, Joe Orton and Basil Fawlty. But as one of the oldest genres in the history of the theatre, farce bridges the gaps by generating gales of helpless belly laughter across the generations. Inspired by John Mortimer’s observation that farce is 'tragedy played at a thousand revolutions a minute', theatre critic Roger Foss embarks on a lightning tour of the rib-tickling world of confused characters, absurd situations, ruined reputations, sexual innuendo and bravura comic acting and finds out if farce really is a force to be reckoned with in the 21st century. The latest addition to the Oberon Masters series, May The Farce Be With You celebrates the great creators and performers of farce, notably master farceur Ray Cooney, who celebrates his 80th birthday in 2012, in essays that will inform and entertain both the aficionado and anyone with a sense of humour.
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781683778
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory. The election of Donald Trump only confirms the bankruptcy of a liberal order on its last legs. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.
Author : Robert M. Lichtman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028861
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Deadly Farce written by Robert M. Lichtman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the rise and fall of Harvey Matusow, a wise-guy, professional informer-witness of the McCarthy era, whose dramatic recantation led to his own imprisonment but hastened the end of the era. No issue so possessed the nation in the first half of the 1950s as alleged Communist subversion in the United States. Communist Party member, an undercover FBI informer inside the Party, and then a leading witness for the government during the McCarthy era--until he recanted his testimony. His story illuminates a disturbing time in American history, one with renewed relevance today. Matusow was easily the most flamboyant of the professional ex-Communists, a celebrity informer who considered himself booked by Congressional committees not just to testify, but to entertain. He testified that Communists fostered loose sex, taught politicized Mother Goose rhymes to small children, and tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts. He also named more than 200 people as Communists and was a prosecution witness in major criminal cases. transcripts, personal interviews, private papers, and other primary sources, most never before utilized, to describe the unusual role of ex-Communist informer-witnesses during the McCarthy era. The Justice Department kept several dozen political informers on the government's payroll to testify in hundreds of deportation, sedition, and contempt of Congress cases. Some informers achieved celebrity as the result of high-profile appearances at criminal trials and before Congressional committees. But as the era continued, instances of perjury began to appear. Harvey Matusow's sensational recantation in 1955 gave him his biggest audience yet. It led to the dissolution of the Justice Department's informer stable and ended the public's infatuation with the group. Matusow's unrepentant and at times vaudevillian appearances before the Senate red-hunting committee investigating his recantation, followed by his prosecution for perjury--for the recantation, not his original testimony--and prison sentence, mark the climax of Deadly Farce . McCarran, and Elizabeth Bentley, among many others, offers an inside, entertaining, and closely documented view of a largely untold part of McCarthy-era history. The columnist Murray Kempton described Matusow as a truly remarkable witness in the opera bouffe sense demanded by inquisitions of the 1950s.
Author : Lucretius Jones
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539377658
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (776 download)
Download or read book May the Farce Be With You! written by Lucretius Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia, beleaguered civil servant Sancho Tonto was ready to abandon the strange, dysfunctional world of Freedonian bureaucracy. Instead, he has chosen to continue to fight a losing battle against a system that favors profit over the environment, poverty, and people. Sancho holds on to his position in the Freedonia Advance Repair Team (FART) while accumulating a store of information related to mismanaged government resources and the self-interested old boys who run the show. Those same old boys suspect Sancho is the author of a satirical account of their many failings, but they lack the evidence they need to move against him-although that doesn't stop them from making his life miserable. While a new and erratic president panders to the global oligarchy, Sancho bears witness to mishandled environmental crises, homegrown terrorism, chronic gun violence, and a police force whose growing brutality illustrates its transformation from a peacekeeping body into a militant force at the beck and call of Freedonian elites. A biting, Swiftian account of bureaucratic ineptitude and corruption, The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia 2.0 is an account of a dystopian society only a discomforting step or two away from reality.
Author : Hank Hanegraaff
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1418515094
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution written by Hank Hanegraaff and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2001-02-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "fairy tale for grown-ups." The author uses his own Memory Dynamics to make it easy for Christians to speak intelligently about evolution and speak persuasively about the Creator.
Author : Trondheim
Publisher : Europe Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Venezia written by Trondheim and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2019-11-20T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their first explosive encounter, Giuseppe and Sophia hate one another with a passion. As fate would have it, both have a secret identity permitting them to conduct investigations incognito. Once his false mustache and wig are removed, Giuseppe becomes "the Eagle." And when her tights and black hood are donned, Sophia transforms into "the Black Scorpion." The Eagle and the Scorpion feel an irresistible attraction for one another... but will they share their first kiss and track down the mysterious "Codex Bellum" before Giuseppe and Sophia tear each other into beautiful little pieces?
Author : Jeanne Darst
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101547847
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Fiction Ruined My Family written by Jeanne Darst and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious."—USA Today Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir. The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family-- of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutantes and equestrians on the other-- Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And the message she internalized as a young girl was clear: While things might be a bit tight for us right now, it’s only temporary. Soon her father would sell the Great American Novel and reclaim the family’s former glory. The Darsts move from St. Louis to New York, and Jeanne’s father writes one novel, then another, which don’t find publishers. This, combined with her mother’s burgeoning alcoholism, lead to financial disaster and divorce. And as Jeanne becomes an adult, she is horrified to discover that she is not only a drinker like her mother, but a writer like her father. At first, and for years, she embraces both activities— and until she can stop putting drinking and writing ahead of everything else, it’s a questionable choice. Ultimately, Darst sets out to discover whether a person can have the writing without the ruin, whether it’s possible to be both sober and creative, ambitious and happy, a professional author and a parent. Filled with brilliantly flawed, idiosyncratic characters and punctuated by Darst’s irreverent eye for absurdity, Fiction Ruined My Family is a lovingly told, wickedly funny portrait of an unconventional life.
Author : Jessie Jones
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822236869
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Farce of Habit written by Jessie Jones and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic fireworks explode in FARCE OF HABIT, an absurdly funny Southern-fried romp that takes us back to the Reel ’Em Inn, the finest little fishing lodge in the Ozarks. The proprietor, D. Gene Wilburn, is looking forward to a peaceful weekend on the lake. But there are only two chances of that happening: slim and none. Why, for example, has his wife, Wanelle, picked these three days to white-knuckle her way through caffeine withdrawal? Why is his son Ty’s marriage to Jenna falling apart so fast? Could it have something to do with the French can-can costume Ty is wearing? How on earth would D. Gene’s feisty sister, Maxie, allow herself to get caught up in such a bizarre undercover police assignment? And that’s just his family. If this isn’t enough to thwart D. Gene’s weekend plans, he’s got a gaggle of nuns who’ve converged on the Inn, hell-bent on experiencing a nature retreat—which might be tolerable if D. Gene didn’t have a chronic fear of anything in a habit. Add to this the presence of Jock McNair, a nationally known relationship guru whose colossal ego threatens everyone’s sanity; a shy retiree anxious to cut loose and embrace his “inner caveman” and a couple of wild women who may or may not be who they claim to be. Throw in the storm of the century that’s fast bearing down on Mayhew, Arkansas, and D. Gene has no prayer of baiting a hook any time soon. Oh, and did we mention there’s an axe murderer on the loose? If you enjoy gloriously preposterous hilarity, then laughing your way through the take-no-prisoners lunacy of a Jones Hope Wooten comedy is one habit you’ll never want to break!
Author : Mark Lloyd
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091752
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Prologue to a Farce written by Mark Lloyd and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both.”--James Madison, 1822 Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none has solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly owned communications model, such as antitrust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the underfunded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must re-create a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.
Author : Hal Foster
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788738128
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book What Comes After Farce written by Hal Foster and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? How to out-dada President Ubu? And, in any event, why add outrage to a media economy that thrives on the same? What Comes After Farce? comments on shifts in art, criticism, and fiction in the face of the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. A first section focuses on the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, paranoia, and kitsch. A second reviews the neoliberal makeover of art institutions during the same period. Finally, a third section surveys transformations in media as reflected in recent art, film, and fiction. Among the phenomena explored here are "machine vision" (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface),"operational images" (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information so pervasive in our everyday lives.
Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351520237
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Farce written by Jessica Milner Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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"? 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. The result is a novel classification of farce-plots, which serves to clarify the differences between farce and more literary comic forms and to show how quickly farce can shade into other styles of humor. The key is a careful balance between a revolt against order and propriety, and a kind of Realpolitik which ultimately restores the social conventions under attack. A complex array of devices in such things as framing, plot, characterization, timing and acting style maintain the delicate balance. Contemporary examples from the London stage bring the discussion u
Author : Eleanor D. Payson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972072830
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists written by Eleanor D. Payson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant but least understood of character disorders in individuals is narcissistic personality disorder, or NPD. In this book, a licensed marital and family therapist provides a much-needed overview of NPD, its wide-ranging effects, and guidelines for dealing with this disorder.
Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822237725
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Book of Will written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.
Author : T. C. Morrison
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 159687855X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Torts "R" Us —A Legal Farce written by T. C. Morrison and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick A. Peters (“Pap”) and his twin brother Prescott U. Peters (“Pup”) are lawyers with a distinctive eye for opportunity. Pap convinces Pup who is a good lawyer despite having gone to Yale Law School that they should leave their respective big-firm practices in New York City to start up a hopefully lucrative practice as plaintiffs' class action lawyers. The brothers meet a variety of clients, judges, and lawyers as they embark on a resourceful and unique approach to lawyer-client relationships all inspired by actual court cases. Written with humor and parlance that only comes from a depth of legal experience, Morrison captures the trials and tribulations of human behavior that strike a chord with every reader. “The first thing we do, let’s pay all the lawyers.” —William Shakespeare “Ask not what your lawyer can do for you but rather what you can do for your lawyer.” — John F. Kennedy “What’s wrong with cake?” —Marie Antoinette “To put it bluntly, our services are designed to bring fear, terror and the threat of bankruptcy to all who come in contact with them.” —Patrick A. Peters III, Partner “P.S. We noticed that your client’s most recent 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission appears to have substantially overstated the company’s third quarter earnings. In an era where virtually every corporate misstep leads to a class action lawsuit, this misstatement could prove troublesome.” A graduate of Otterbein University (Ohio) and New York University Law School, T. C. Morrison spent his 50-year legal career writing briefs and trying cases around the country for a series of New York City law firms.
Author : Albert Bermel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780809316458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Farce written by Albert Bermel and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farce elicits an immediate, elemental response from all age levels, cutting across national and intellectual boundaries. It dates back to people’s first attempts to scoff in public at whatever their neighbors cherished in private: social prestige, eccentricities, virtues that are vices, friendships, and enmities. Albert Bermel, teacher, writer, and translator of farce, takes readers on an instructive and hilarious voyage from the classical Greek stage through English Restoration and French farce, to the young Hollywood of Mack Sennett, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, the other silent farceurs of the Jazz Age, and on to W. C. Fields, Mae West, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Monty Python—including other greats along the way like Hope and Crosby, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Brothers.
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Publisher : Scott Skipper
ISBN 13 : 1301250767
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Hundred Years Farce written by and published by Scott Skipper. This book was released on with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
