Here come the clowns : a cavalcade of comedy from antiquity to the present / Lowell swortzell ; illustrated by C. Walter Hodges. - New York : The Viking Press, 1978. - 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Data cronica
- 1978
Descrizione
- Contents:
INTRODUCTION - What is a clown?
1.ANTIQUITY - Dwarfs, Parasites, Satirists, Tricky Slaves and the Clowns of Aristophanes and Plautus
2.THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY RENAISSANCE - Mimes, Vices, Knaves, Jester, Fools, Simpletons, and the Clowns of Hans Sachs and Other
3.THE ITALIAN COMEDIANS - Harlequin, Pantalone, the Doctor, Pulcinella, the Captain, and Their Friends
4.THE ELIZABETHANS - Jig Makers, Richad Tarleton, William Kempe, Robert Armin, and the Clowns of Shakespeare
5.THE CLOWN'S SUPREMACY IN FRANCE - Tabarin, Turlupin, Gautier Garguille, Gros Guillaume, Jodelet, and the Clowns of Molière
6.THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY - Fops, British Harlequins and Pantomimes, Sheridan's Clowns, America's Jonathan and France's Figaro
7. NINETEENTH CENTURY CLOWNING - Early American Clowns, Joseph Grimaldi, Two Clowns named Rice, Harringan and Hart, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Others
8. THE CLOWNS OF ASIA - The Vidushaka of India, the Ch'ou of China, the Kyogen of Japan, and the Punakawan of Java
9.CLOWNS IN THE LIVING THEATRE - Dan Leno, Will Rogers, George M. Cohan, Fanny Brice, the Great Teams, Modern-Day Zanies, the Sophisticated Clowns, and Marcel Marceau's Bip
10. CLOWNS IN THE SILENT MOVIES - The First Film Clowns, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harry Langdon
11.CLOWNS IN TALKIES AND TELEVISION - Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Mae West, Jimmy Durante, Joe E. Brown, Dizzy Dames and Dumb Blondes, Margaret Rutherford, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Ball, Flip Wilson, Jacques Tati, Woody Allen, and Others
12. CLOWNS IN THE CIRCUS - The Whiteface, the Auguste, the Grotesque, Grock, the Fratellini, Coco, Emmett Keely, Felix Adler, Otto Griebling, Lou Jacobs, Popov, Los Muchachos, and the Clowns of Tomorrow
Luogo di edizione
- New York
Paese
- US
Lingua
- ENG Inglese
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