PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The study is devoted to a comprehensive conceptualization of the therapeutic potential of the performing arts—primarily stand-up comedy, theatrical improvisation, and modeling—within the rehabilitation system for patients with various forms of alopecia (Alopecia Areata, Totalis, Universalis). Under conditions of sustained growth in the global incidence of autoimmune disorders, the number of episodes of which by 2024…

Reference · Wikidata

symbolic masks used to represent the performing arts

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The comedy and tragedy masks, also known as the drama masks, are a pair of masks, one crying and one laughing, that have widely come to represent the performing arts. Originating in the theatre of ancient Greece, the masks were said to help audience members far from the stage to understand what emotions the characters were feeling.

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Book · DOAB

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A State of Play explores how the British have imagined their politics, from the parliament worship of Anthony Trollope to the cynicism of The Thick of It. In an account that mixes historical with political analysis, Steven Fielding argues that fictional depictions of politics have pla…

Full text · Open Library

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are …

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