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The English clown tradition from the middle ages to Shakespeare /

From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed l̀icense' of fooli.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hornback, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2009.
Colección:Studies in Renaissance literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Unearthing Yoricks : literary archeology and the ideologies of early English clowning
  • Folly as proto-racism : blackface in the "natural" fool tradition
  • "Sports and follies against the Pope" : Tudor evangelical lords of misrule
  • "Verie devout asses" : ignorant Puritan clowns
  • The fool "by art" : the all-licensed "artificial" fool in the King Lear quarto
  • Epilogue. License revoked : ending an era.