I Must Tell You This: Intimacy, Gagging and Comic Licence in Performer-Audience Relationships
This chapter examines the rapport between performers and their audiences in live comedy, identifying techniques used by music-hall performers that remain central in contemporary comedy. The evolution of the practice of ‘gagging’ or improvised interaction
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The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880–1920 Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity Sam Beale
Palgrave Studies in Comedy Series Editors Roger Sabin University of the Arts London London, UK Sharon Lockyer Brunel University London, UK
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Sam Beale
The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880–1920 Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity
Sam Beale Middlesex University Hendon, UK
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