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Authors: Dario Fo, Ron Jenkins, Franca Rame (Editor), Ron Jenkins
ISBN-13: 9781559362719, ISBN-10: 1559362715
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Dario Fo

One of the major theatrical artists of the 20th century, Italy's Dario Fo, togther with Franca Rame, his wife and creative partner, have been creating a theatrical foray uniquely their own for more than fifty years. One of the world's most produced playwrights, Fo was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature. Ron Jenkins holds a doctorate from Harvard and a masters in buffoonery from the Ringling Brothers Clown College. His translations of Dario Fo and Hoshua Sobol have been performed at theatres around the country. He is the author of Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Artful Laughter and is the chair and artistic director of the theatre department at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Book Synopsis

Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's quintessential work.

Table of Contents

A Scandal of Epic Proportions: Mistero Buffo Translator's Introduction by Ron Jenkins
Mistero Buffo1
The Birth of the Giullare7
The Birth of the Peasant19
The Rite of the Goats and Mammuthones27
The Massacre of the Innocents35
The First Miracle of the Child Jesus47
The Morality Play of the Blind Man and the Cripple67
The Madonna Meets the Marys85
The Resurrection of Lazarus97
The Miracle of the Wedding at Cana105
Fool's Play Under the Cross/The Crucifiers ("The Nailers")115
Mary Under the Cross129
The Story of Saint Benedetto of Norcia139
Death and the Fool143
Boniface VIII155

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