Comedy: The Taming of the Shrew + The Importance of Being Earnest

Alternative Shakespeares by John Drakakis; Routledge, 2002 - 1: Introduction - 2: Swisser-Swatter - 3: Post-Structuralist Shakespeare - 4: Deconstructing Shakespeare's Comedies - 5: Sexuality in the Reading of Shakespeare - 6: Reading the Signs - 7: Shakespeare in Ideology - 8: Disrupting Sexual Difference - 9: Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish - 10: History and Ideology - Afterword


Total Directing "Beckett Process"

Godot as comedy: "nothing happens twice" ("nothing" = life, first time as tragedy).

Genre and Acting
Design (Designers)

Comedy and Brecht (Epic Theatre)


"the archetypal or/and stereotypical" -- POMO and pop-culture (where?) Theory Issues


lesson 18. comedy

Importance of Being Earnest

Taming of the Shrew

12th Night

+ Mini-Chekhov and 3 Sisters (connecting with Beckett).

Historical Perspective:
Gogol: Inspector General
Commedia
Comic Opera: Mikado
Dada (Biomechanics)

Comedy, according to Aristotle (200X Aesthetics)

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