From Library Journal
Behan, a lecturer in Italian studies at the University of Canterbury, has written the first political biography of Dario Fo, Europe's leading radical dramatist, and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. Chapters 1, 2, and 6 provide biographical information about Fo, necessarily intermixed with background on Italy's postwar leftist political movements. Fo's greatest period--from 1968, when he broke with the commercial theater, until the late 1970s, when leftist movements began to wane--is recounted in particular detail. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 analyze (mostly in political terms) his most frequently performed theater pieces, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1969), Mistero Buffo (1968), and Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (1974). Behan, the author of a study of the Communist Party and the working class in Milan, is unusually qualified for this undertaking. Recommended for collections supporting advanced study in either modern Italian politics or political theater; Tony Mitchell's Dario Fo: People's Court Jester (1984. o.p.) may be sufficient for public and undergraduate collections.
-Robert W. Melton, Univ. of Kansas Libs., Lawrence
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-Robert W. Melton, Univ. of Kansas Libs., Lawrence
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
