Satiric Impersonations: From Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls ebook

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Satiric Impersonations: From Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls

Fox fellow Yale University, Moscow, 1991. Satiric Impersonations: From Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls ) . To Schechter, impersonation is both an art form through which one living person appears to be another and an act that reveals that the person imitated is an impostor. For example, he contends that "while Hitler conquered Europe, Chaplin in his film The Great Dictator in his own way conquered Hitler, adding him to a repertoire that included the Little Tramp and (later) Blue-beard.

Satiric Impersonations: From Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls (essays), Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL) . Joel Schechter told CA: "I have written several books about circus clowns and political satirists.

Satiric Impersonations: From Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls (essays), Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1994. The Congress of Clowns (essays), Kropotkin Club (San Francisco, CA), 1998. Popular Theater: A Sourcebook (essays), Routledge (New York, NY), 2003. My interest in these subjects developed when I read about certain stage artists and comedians, and in some cases saw them perform.

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And as if it were not enough, he puns and coins words at the drop of an iota subscript. Moreover, the plays are in verse that shifts from one intricate meter to another throughout. Some translators have valiantly set out to reflect this teeming prosody by using rhyme, but the results for the most part seem merely forced or fussy.

In this entertaining and provocative new work, Joel Schechter selectively surveys political satire covering a wide range of periods and events from Aristophanes to the present. His absorbing essays focus on the satire of Jonathan Swift, Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, Dario Fo, and the Guerrilla Girls, among others.

Schechter argues that some politicians are as theatrical, if not as comic, as the plays, pamphlets, and films in which they are satirically impersonated, and he contends that their very theatricality invites their satirical treatment by playwrights and performers. As examples, he cites Hitler, Stalin, and Reagan as performers whose "acts" rival anything a satirist could invent and any impersonation a comedian could stage.

To Schechter, impersonation is both an art form through which one living person appears to be another and an act that reveals that the person imitated is an impostor. For example, he contends that "while Hitler conquered Europe, Chaplin [in his film The Great Dictator]in his own way conquered Hitler, adding him to a repertoire that included the Little Tramp and (later) Blue-beard."

Schechter concludes with a memoir of his own brief career as an actor-politician.