comedy

Provides information on how to be funny, including ideas about comedic styles and routines, how to use props, developing a distinctive character, using music, improvisational techniques, as well as the history of comedy and some well-known people in the field.

Complete text of the play, about mixed-up identities and misplaced affections, with study aids, textual notes, and a modern perspective.

A research and study guide to the plays of Greek dramatist Aristophanes, featuring biographical information about the playwright, and providing plot summaries, character lists, and critical views on four plays.

Presents a guide to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," featuring a plot summary, analysis of key passages, a biography of Shakespeare, and critical essays from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Discusses the origins and history of the European theatrical medium, and offers a step-by-step guide to using Commedia techniques in performance with sample dialogues and monologues, as well as explanations of each stock character type.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the sixteenth-century comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and its author, William Shakespeare.

A collection of twenty-five dramatic pieces, including one-acts, skits, curtain raisers, and adaptations, for ages from the middle grades through high school.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the play "Twelfth Night" and its author William Shakespeare.