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Title: The Plays of CODCO

The Plays of CODCO

Edited by Helen Peters

by Helen Peters (Volume editor)
©1993 Others XL, 446 Pages
The Arts
Series: American University Studies , Volume 14

Summary

This book presents the texts of five plays, collectively written and performed during the years 1973 to 1976 by the Newfoundland theatre troupe CODCO. CODCO's satiric plays expose universal perversity, ignorance, prejudice and abuse with the ironic wit of the people of Newfoundland. The plays are distinguished by their graveyard or gallows humour. CODCO played an important role in the evolution of Canadian theatre and is an early signifier of Canada's attainment of cultural maturity. CODCO's current weekly television series commenced broadcasting in 1988.

Details

Pages
XL, 446
Year
1993
ISBN (PDF)
9781453910795
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-1079-5
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (December)
Keywords
Theaterwissenschaft Bühnentechnik Schauspieltechniken
Published
New York, San Francisco, Bern, Baltimore, Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Wien, Paris, 1993. XL, 446 pp., num. ill.

Biographical notes

Helen Peters (Volume editor)

The Editor: Helen Peters received her B.A. and M.A. from Memorial University of Newfoundland and her D. Phil. from Oxford University where she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College. She has taught at Somerville and Manchester Colleges, Oxford, at he University of Ottawa, Ontario, and she is currently an associate professor in the Department of English at Memorial. Her doctoral dissertation was published as 'A Critical Edition of the Paradoxes and Problems of John Donne', a work which was awarded the Rosemary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy. Her articles on seventeenth-century British literature and Newfoundland theatre have appeared in professional journals and books.

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