Farce

by Jessica Milner Davis

Book Overview

Revised edition (2003), with new material and a new introduction by the author. Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0416815901
• ISBN13: 9780416815900
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Methuen Publishing
• Length: 111 Pages

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.