Resources for Teaching Stage Comedy

As part of a speech given at the California Educational Theatre Association’s annual conference, I prepared three handouts that can be used in teaching the history and craft of stage comedy to high school and college students. To download the pdfs, click the images below.

Ken’s list of
the Best Comic Plays in Western Literature

Ken’s list of
Recurring Comic Tropes in Western Comedy 

 Ken’s list of
the Great Screwball Comedies of the 1930s and 40s