Hand to God: The Irreverent Laughter of Robert Askins - “Laugh, motherfuckers, that shit’s funny” (Askins 31)
This article aims at defining the laughter provoked by the play Hand to God written by American playwright Robert Askins in 2011. This dark comedy uses the classical tools of humour, as analysed by Henri Bergson in his essay on laughter, but it creates a desperate atmosphere of mental and physical v...
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2019-10-01
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coleção: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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Acesso em linha: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/19986 |