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Dario Fo
A triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre
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A farce from Italian playwright Dario Fo. When an heiress is abducted, she cleverly outdoes her kidnappers. This version is translated by Stephen Stenning.
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Exclusive U.S. publisher of the 1998 Nobel Laureate
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Brings together three major political plays, Accidental Death of an Anarchist , Mistero Buffo and Trumpets and Raspberries , along with two previously unpublished short farces - The Virtuous Burglar…
This collection includes nine monologues concerned with sexual and domestic issues and female oppression: A WOMAN ALONE, MAMMA FRICCHETONA (THE FREAK MOMMY), WAKING UP, WE ALL HAVE THE SAME STORY…
Helga Jungblut
Die Verfasserin analysiert anhand einzelner reprasentativer Stucke Fos Grundkonzeption eines politischen Theaters, die Synthese von Kunst und Politik. Dabei werden vor allem die in Funktion hierzu stehenden, aus der volkstumlichen…
Tony Mitchell (University of Technology Sydney, Australia),Mitchell
A revised critical study covering the various phases of Dario Fo’s theatrical career.
Antonio Scuderi
This study of the Italian Nobel playwright and master performer, Dario Fo, will be of interest to scholars and students of popular performance and contemporary European theatre. Dario Fo: Framing…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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Joseph Farrell
Joseph Farrell's biography gives a complete account of the various activities and multifaceted lives of two extraordinary individuals Dario Fo and Franca Rame.
Based on a true-life story, this play throws into relief the judicial and police corruption of 1970s Italy. Simon Nye’s translation brings out the parallels with our situation in the…
Throughout the 1980s, Dario Fo, Italy’s best known and most provocative satirical playwright, and his wife Franca Rame, conducted a series of performance-seminars around the world on the subject of…
In his first ever novel, Nobel laureate Dario Fo recounts the story of Renaissance Italy’s most powerful and immoral family and their favorite daughter, Lucrezia Borgia.
Pelegi Gianpiero
Este estudio pretende abordar el discurso comico en la obra de Dario Fo desde una optica meramente pragmatica, examinando, a partir de los textos escogidos, cuales son los recursos comicos…
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Stefania Taviano
Focusing on the UK and US, the author offers a critique of the cultural stereotyping and political conservatism that have pursued the playwrights in translation. She shows how the choices…
This is the first extended treatment of the English translations, staging, and reception of the political plays of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Stefania Taviano offers a critique of the…
Dario Fo, Franca Rame
Dario Fo and Franca Rame's riotous satire, in a hilarious, bang-up-to-date adaptation by BAFTA-nominated comedy writer Tom Basden.
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Highly contentious and subversive at the time of its first production in Milan in 1970, this has since become one of Fo’s best known and translated text. Based on a…
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Dario Fo
Uncle Vanya has been described as the least pleasant and most bitter of Chekhov’s plays - yet the difficulty in communication is one of its outstanding features.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world’s most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive wit and unusual linguistic experimentation into a comedy of complete…
A reissue of Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo’s play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist - a sharp satire on police corruption. The play concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker…
Dario Fo,Franca Rame
A collection of one woman plays written by Rame and Fo, which explore the joys and vicissitudes of woman’s experience. The plays featured include Rise and Shine , Alice in…
