Screen LibraryThe 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 license of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Published: |
D.S. Brewer,
|
| Publisher Address: | Woodbridge |
| Publication Dates: |
2013. © 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in Renaissance literature,
v. 26. |
| Subjects: | |
| Summary: |
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 license of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781843842002 (hardback) 1843842009 (hardback) 9781843843566 (paperback) : 1843843560 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PR658 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Call Number: | I561.073/H814 |
| 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. |