The English clown tradition from the middle ages to Shakespeare
By: Robert Hornback
Series: Studies in Renaissance literature -- v. 26; Studies in Renaissance literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) -- v. 26.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781843842002
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Unearthing Yoricks : literary archeology and the ideologies of early English clowning; title: Folly as proto-racism : blackface in the "natural" fool tradition; title: "Sports and follies against the Pope" : Tudor evangelical lords of misrule; title: "Verie devout asses" : ignorant Puritan clowns; title: The fool "by art" : the all-licensed "artificial" fool in the King Lear quarto; title: Epilogue. License revoked : ending an era.