New Forms of Comedy

Bernhard Reitz (Ed.)

New forms of Comedy. Papers given on the occasion of the second annual conference of the "German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English"

ISBN 978-3-88476-118-2, ISBN 3-88476-118-8, 168 S., kt., € 18,00 (1994)

(CDE - Contemporary Drama in English, Bd. 1)

Christopher Innes: The Cutting Edge of Comedy: Peter Barnes' Polemics

Peter Paul Schnierer: The Conventional Comedies of Bond and Shaffer

Christine Dymkowski: Questioning Comedy in Daniels, Wertenbaker, and Churchill

Eckart Voigts-Virchow: Learning by Suffering/Singing: Dennis Potter`s The Singing Detective as a Musical Tragicomedy of Disease

Tobias Döring: Outside in: Place and Space in Matura's Political Comedy

Ann Wilson: Po-Co Jest: Reflections on Comedy and National Identity in English-Canada

Bernhard Reitz: From Loman to Lyman: Arthur Miller's Comedy

Edith Hallberg: Barbara Garson's Black Comedy Security

Christiane Bimberg: The Serious Business of Comedy: Return to a Complex Genre in Woody Allen's A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy

Armin Geraths: The New Musical and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Musical Comedy

William Brown: Robert Ashley's Comic Opera for Television

Peter Griffith: Aspects of Contemporary Theatre-in-Education