Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain
(2014)
Book
Peacock, L. (2014). Slapstick and Comic Performance: Comedy and Pain. 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.