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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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies in Renaissance literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ;
v. 26. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.