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Humor and comedy in puppetryHumor and comedy in puppetry

Humor and comedy in puppetry

Dina Sherzer, Joel Sherzer

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Humor and puppets / Antonio Pasqualino -- The cocreation of the comic in puppetry / Frank Proschan -- Verbal humor in the puppet theater / Dina Sherzer and Joel Sherzer -- The crown figure in the puppet theater of West Java : the ancestor and the individual / Kathy Foley -- Functions of the comic attendants (panasar) in a Balinese shadowplay / Fredrik E. deBoer -- The form and function of humor in the Liáege puppet theater / Joan Gross -- Humor and anti-humor in western Puebloan puppetry performances / M. Jane Young.

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OL Work ID
OL18288329W

Subjects

Wit and humorPopular cultureThe ComicPuppet theaterHistory and criticismPuppets

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