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Author:

Swortzell, Lowell. cn

Title:

Here come the clowns : a cavalcade of comedy from antiquity to the present / Lowell Swortzell ; illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Viking Press,

Copyright Date:

1978

Description:

245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Clowns--Biography.
Comedians--Biography.
Comedy.
Clowns.
Comedians.
Comedy.

Other Authors:

Hodges, C. Walter (Cyril Walter), 1909- cn

Notes:

Includes index. Bibliography: p. [233]-236.

Summary:

Discusses comedians and the use of comedy throughout history from ancient Greek drama through traveling shows to present day radio and television.

ISBN:

9780670368747
0670368741

LCCN:

77010115

Locations:

LHPD057 -- Audubon Public Library (Audubon)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

OKPA027 -- Prescott Public Library (Prescott)