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Comedy has always had a constant presence in the history of Catalan theatre, but it has never really been recognized as a separate generic identity, worthy of academic study as a whole. This volume is the first concentrated attempt to analyse Catalan theatre under the comic lens, with essays in English and Catalan. It studies comic form, performative innovations and socio-political function. As well as providing detailed analysis of figures excluded from standard accounts, it makes a strong case for the originality of many authors, directors and actors. This is definitely another realm in which the Catalan contribution to European culture needs to be acknowledged and appreciated. Moreover, the book provides a rare instance when theatre is considered - within the same project - from several regions where Catalan is spoken: Catalonia, the Valencia region and different towns in French Catalonia.
La hilaritat sempre ha tingut una presencia molt important en l'evolucio del teatre catala, tot i que rarament ha comptat amb un estudi i reconeixement academics. Aquest volum proposa una analisi de diverses formes d'humor de l'escena catalana del segle XX, amb una seleccio d'assaigs en angles i catala d'experts de diferents universitats. S'hi examinen algunes propostes de comicitat, innovacions performatives i la projeccio sociopolitica d'aquesta jocositat. Tambe s'hi estudia l'originalitat d'un conjunt d'autors, directors i actors al marge de l'humor politicament correcte. Sens dubte, un altre ambit, el de riure, en el qual cal reconeixer i posar en valor la contribucio catalana a la cultura europea. El llibre constitueix un cas rar on es considera el teatre -dins d'un mateix projecte- de diversos espais geografics on es parla catala: Catalunya (sobretot Barcelona), el Pais Valencia i diferents pobles del Rossello.
