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...

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Publicado en:Social Research Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 1059 - 1085
Autor principal: Welsh, Alexander
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: New School for Social Research Winter 2008
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