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Is He Dead?: A Comedy in Three Acts |
Publisher: University of California
Binding: Paperback
SKU: 500019
Our Price: $
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 Publish Date: June 2006
Original Pub: 1907
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780520248335
Edition: Reprint
Language: English
Pages: 246
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis:
The theater was the acme of pop-cultural aspiration in the nineteenth century, and few writers pursued peak popularity more ardently than Twain did. Of his several plays, only the first, built around a character created for a novel, was a hit. His hopes were high for the last, however, loaded as it was with proven come-ons: a major man-in-drag character a la the era's biggest hit, Charley's Aunt; a setup--the debt-with-impossible-deadline owed an oily creditor--typical of boffo-BO melodramas of the time; idiotic musical interruptions a la the rising musical-theater mode, vaudeville; and as protagonist, the most famous artist of the century, Francois Millet, whose The Angelus was the first million-dollar painting. Sound like a hodgepodge? It is. Yet, sparked by enough over-the-top humor, it is laugh-aloud funny to read.w.hermanstreet.com/store/media/promos/gb_se-backup.gif border=0>
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