Style : Acting in High Comedy
, by Aitken, MariaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781557832146 | 1557832145
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/1/1996
This book isn't a critical examination of high comedy. Rather, it's a collection of suggestions for the middlemen: the actors who have to catch the comic spark from the playwright and pass it on to the audience. The effort involved must be imperceptible: one has to acquire the cleverness, the articulacy, the febrility of the characters - and then make the whole laborious exercise seem like swimming through silk...The characters in high comedies don't find verbal sophistication difficult or unfamiliar; they enjoy it as you might enjoy slang.