Farce

By Jessica Milner Davis

Book Overview

Revised edition (2003), with new material and a new introduction by the author

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765808870
• ISBN13: 9780765808875
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A welcome and uniquely recommended contribution

Farce by Jessica Milner Davies (Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Co-coordinator of the Australasian Humour Scholars Network, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) is a college-level work of scholarship and criticism specifically examining the literary genre of the farce. Jessica Davis classifies traditional farce-plots, studies the role of characterization and timing, as well as presenting the history and accepted rules of the farce. General themes incorporated into many a farce include such issues as revenge, coincidence, and rebellion. All these and more are studied from all sides in this intriguing analysis. Farce is a welcome and uniquely recommended contribution to both Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies reference collections and supplementary reading lists.