Playing with the rules : thoughts on a trickster spirit and the soul of comedy

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Weitz, Eric. 2011. “Playing With the Rules : Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 7 (2). https://www.americanaejournal.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45251.
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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2011): Fall
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Essays
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Eric Weitz

Eric Weitz is Assistant Professor and Head of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, lecturing in acting and comedy. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy (2009) and editor of The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre (2004), and has also contributed articles on comedy-related subjects to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, among other publications. Email: weitzer@tcd.ie