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Baggy Pants Comedy: Burlesque and the Oral Tradition (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Baggy Pants Comedy Burlesque and the Oral Tradition - Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Author: Andrew Davis
Taking readers inside the burlesque houses of Depression-era America, Baggy Pants Comedy explores the role of comedy in a show remembered mostly for strip-tease. It examines how burlesque comics, straightmen, and talking women approached the craft of comedy, working in a genre that relied not on scripts but on a remembered tradition of comedy bi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781137378729
ISBN-10: 1137378727
Publication Date: 1/9/2014
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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