The Modern Language Review, October 1st, 2001
Dario Fo and Popular Performance. By ANTONIO SCUDERI. With a Foreword by JOSEPH FARRELL. Ottawa: Legas. 1998. 119 pp. $17.95. This nuanced study of Dario Fo's debt to the traditions of European popular theatre appeared shortly after the polymath Italian actor-director-playwright was awarded the Nobel Prize, and was in fact the first book on Fo to materialize after the event. In his Nobel address to the King of Sweden, Fo emphasized his long-standing self-designation as a giullare (jongleur, or strolling player, or as Joseph Farrell suggests in his Foreword, 'busker'). Scuderi, an Italian-Amer...
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