State-of-the-Art Impersonations for Comedy and Everyday.
The writer considers impersonation in comedy and general daily life through several literary and theatrical forms and ages. He focuses on the kind of stage comedy that takes pleasure in faked and mistaken identities and that conveys the excitement, the advantages, and the dangers of pretending to b...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 1059 - 1085 |
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New School for Social Research
Winter 2008
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| Sumario: | The writer considers impersonation in comedy and general daily life through several literary and theatrical forms and ages. He focuses on the kind of stage comedy that takes pleasure in faked and mistaken identities and that conveys the excitement, the advantages, and the dangers of pretending to be someone else. He considers how it is that the audience often sides with the eager deceivers and impersonators in these plays. He appeals to few sobering thoughts of Thomas Hobbes in defense of his invocation of the muse of Comedy. |
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