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A lively assortment of satirical pieces that deploy slapstick, parody and critical wit against theatrical clichés and social pretensions. The book combines short comic dramas, lampooning sketches, mock practical guides and playful glossaries with essays and vignette-style scenes, shifting between stagewise set-pieces and faux-instructional formats. Through exaggerated situations, ironic commentary and burlesque forms it skewers popular tastes and received manners while showcasing a brisk, conversational comic voice that favors deflation and farce over earnest moralizing.

BOTTOMS UP

BOTTOMS UP

AN APPLICATION OF THE SLAPSTICK TO SATIRE

BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAN

NEW YORK
PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY
1917