Satire /

• Main Author: Schechter, Joel, 1947- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Methuen Drama, 2021.
• Series: Forms of drama
• Subjects: Αριστοφάνης π. 450-π. 385 > Ιππείς; Gay, John, > 1685-1732. > Η όπερα του ζητιάνου; Behan, Brendan, > 1923-1964.; Σάτιρα > Ιστορία και κριτική; Κωμικό, Το, στη λογοτεχνία.; Πνεύμα και χιούμορ στη λογοτεχνία.; Βωμολοχία στη λογοτεχνία.; Δράμα > Ιστορία και κριτική

"Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens. From Aristophanes to the 18th-century plays of John Gay and Henry Fielding, to the creations of Joan Litt...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: What Was Stage Satire? Looking Back at an Endangered Art Form
• 2. Aristophanes and After: Origins and Legacy of Ancient Athenian Satire
• 3. John Gay's Swiftian Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century
• 4. Joan Littlewood's Brendan Behan and the Making of Modern Satire
• 5. Conclusion: the Endangered Future of Satire.