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Drama and Theatre Studies
Revised and expanded edition for use with all Drama and Theatre Studies A & AS specifications.
Humorous Plays for Teenagers
A collection of one-act comedies, melodramas, and curtain-raisers; for use in schools, clubs, drama groups, and libraries; and using real-life situations and dialogue.
Writing Humor
Learn how to expand the humor in your imagination into the most fulfilling and fun-filled genres in creative writing-from comedy to a satirical essay to a joke monologue-with the help of Writing Humor, the first textbook of its kind for college students.
Satyric Play
Satyric Play is the first book to offer an integrated analysis of Greek comedy and satyr drama. Using a literary-historical approach, Carl A. Shaw argues that comedy and satyr plays influenced each other in nearly all stages of their development. Although satyr drama was written by tragedians and employed a number of formal tragic elements, the humorous chorus of half-man, half-horse satyrs encouraged sustained interaction between poets of comedy and satyr play. From sixth-century proto-drama, through classical productions staged at the Athenian City Dionysia, to bookish Alexandrian plays of the third-century, the remains of comic and satyric performances reveal a range of literary, aestheti...
Biblical Humor and Performance
What's so humorous about the Bible? Quite a bit, especially if experienced with others! Nine biblical scholars explore their experiences of reading and hearing passages from the Bible and discovering humor that becomes clearer in performance. Each writer found clues in their chosen biblical text that suggested biblical authors expected an audience to respond with laughter. Performers have a powerful role in either bringing out or tamping down humor in the Bible. One audience may be more disposed to respond to humor than another. And each contributor found that experiencing humor changed the interpretation of the biblical passage. From Genesis to Revelation, this study uncovers the Bible's potential for humor.
