Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational

Issue covers ; Romanticism, Vaudeville, Farce, Realism. Playwrights considered ; Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Goethe, Kleist, Pirandello, Brecht and Genet.

Professor States provides nothing less than a new theory of the drama based upon the principles of irony and dialectic. Very close in approach to the Continenta

Technically, scatology has been used for various purposes: to shock, to smash puritanical taboos, to exptess hate and disgust, to explain psychological motivati

This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in