Performance And Identity In Irish Stand-Up Comedy: The Comic 'I'

One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins.

• • Author: S. Colleary
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Jan 01, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 216 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1349465909
• • ISBN-13: 9781349465903