| Description |
222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Poetics of Dario Fo / Joseph Farrell and Antonio Scuderi -- 1. An Actor's Theater / Walter Valeri -- 2. The Rhythms of Resurrection: Onstage with Fo / Ron Jenkins -- 3. Updating Antiquity / Antonio Scuderi -- 4. Mistero buffo: Negating Textual Certainty, the Individual, and Time / Costantino Maeder -- 5. Fo and Ruzzante: Debts and Obligations / Joseph Farrell -- 6. "The Moon Is a Light Bulb" and Other Stories: Fo, the Songwriter / Tony Mitchell -- 7. Dario Fo's "Bourgeois Period": Carnival and Criticism / Bent Holm -- 8. Morte accidentale in English / Jennifer Lorch -- 9. Parliamo di donne: Feminism and Politics in the Theater of Franca Rame / Sharon Wood -- 10. Tradition, Traditions, and Dario Fo / Paolo Puppa -- 11. The Actor Who Writes: Dario Fo and the Nobel Prize / Joseph Farrell |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Fo, Dario, 1926-2016 -- Stage history.
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Fo, Dario, 1926-2016 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fo, Dario -- Stage history.
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Fo, Dario -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fo, Dario, 1926- -- Stage history.
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Fo, Dario, 1926- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Theater -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Farrell, Joseph.
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Scuderi, Antonio, 1956-
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| LC no. |
00038785 |
| ISBN |
0809323354 alkaline paper |
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