Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain

By Louise Peacock

Book Overview

Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the audience laugh. It draws examples from theatre, television and film on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349349291
• ISBN13: 9781349349296
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"