This study explores American playwright John Guare's unnerving and paradoxical theater through an examination of black comedy. It attempts to make Guare's theater more accessible by arguing that Guare's black humor has its roots in the tradition of farce- broadly satirical dark comedies in which humor is discovered in pain, despair, or horror.
- ISBN10 0874137632
- ISBN13 9780874137637
- Publish Date 28 February 2002 (first published 1 December 2001)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint University of Delaware Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English