{"product_id":"style-acting-in-high-comedy-9781557832146","title":"Style: Acting in High Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maria Aitken\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc\/Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc\/Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Acting \u0026amp; Auditioning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book isn't a critical examination of high comedy. Rather, it's a collection of suggestions for the middlemen: the actors who have to catch the comic spark from the playwright and pass it on to the audience. The effort involved must be imperceptible: one has to acquire the cleverness, the articulacy, the febrility of the characters - and then make the whole laborious exercise seem like swimming through silk...The characters in high comedies don't find verbal sophistication difficult or unfamiliar; they enjoy it as you might enjoy slang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc\/Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411421716631,"sku":"9781557832146","price":1541.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781557832146.webp?v=1767443739","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/style-acting-in-high-comedy-9781557832146","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}