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
Comedy and Brecht (Epic Theatre)
"the archetypal or/and stereotypical" -- POMO and pop-culture (where?) Theory Issues
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+ 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)