A study of the popular modern dramatists and the continuity of the farce tradition from Pinero to Travers, the Whitehall team and Orton which examines and questions some of the common assumptions about its nature. Farce techniques are shown to be increasingly used in serious drama.

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Polytechnic of North London, UK

Leslie Smith

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Book Title: Modern British Farce
Book Subtitle: A Selective Study of British Farce from Pinero to the Present Day
Authors: Leslie Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09759-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-09761-6Published: 01 January 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09759-3Published: 18 June 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 232
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies

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