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The Bard, the Scholar and the Director never met.Nevetheless, they had similar interests. Commedia.
I will stay with one only topic from Bakhtin's theory of laughter -- the Upsidedown World.
First, Meyerhold's take on comical. The mechanical aspect in acting and repetition.
The stock characters and masks. the gender reversal. Girl as Boy.
12th Night = Carnival (Bakhtin).
Black is white, tall is short, hot is cold and etc.
Abstract "The Comic in Shakespeare" for the University of Canterbury, Kent in 2001, June 28-30.
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