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Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain (2014)
Book
Peacock, L. (2014). Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438973

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, televi... Read More about Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain.

Into the Darkest Places: Pursuing Politics in the Plays of Phyllis Nagy (2014)
Journal Article
Morgan McKean, K. S. (2014). Into the Darkest Places: Pursuing Politics in the Plays of Phyllis Nagy. Contemporary Theatre Review, 24(1), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2013.858328

In this article, I argue for the political relevance of the work of Phyllis Nagy not only to the 1990s – the decade in which the majority of her work premiered – but to current political, theoretical and theatrical debates. I consider the ways in whi... Read More about Into the Darkest Places: Pursuing Politics in the Plays of Phyllis Nagy.