Satire

Joel Schechter is Professor Emeritus of Theatre and Dance at San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author of Durov’s Pig: Clowns, Politics and Theatre; The Pickle Clowns; Satiric Impersonations from Aristophanes to the Guerrilla Girls; Messiahs of 1933; Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole and he is the editor of Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook.