Dario Fo: People's Court Jester

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Dario Fo: People's Court Jester
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tony Mitchell
SeriesBiography and Autobiography
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:532
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780413733207
ClassificationsDewey:852.914
Audience
General
Edition n.e.of 2r.e.

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 29 November 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to cover various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career. It looks at Fo's political influences and also the influence on his work of various theatrical motifs, including the great clown traditions which stretch back to the middle ages. The political work of Dario Fo and his wife/collaborator Franca Rame is charted from the 1960s up to the present to give the reader clear insight into this playwright/performer's unique literary and theatrical strengths. Each of Fo's plays and productions is discussed at length and the author has included an extensive and updated bibliography which includes full production details, quotes and writings about Fo. Always a popular performer in his native Italy, Fo has been one of the world's most performed dramatists. In the author's words: he is the "people's court jester".

Author Biography

Tony Mitchell is an honorary research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Popular Music and Local Identity: Rock, Pop and Rap in Europe and Oceania (1994), editor of Global Noise: Rap and Hip hop outside the USA (2001), co-editor of North Meets South: Popular Music in Aotearoa New Zealand (2004), Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia (2007), Home, Land and Sea: Situating Music in Aotearoa New Zealand (2011), and Sounds Icelandic (forthcoming 2017). He is also series editor of 33 1/3 Australia and Oceania with Bloomsbury.