Title: Shakespeare's great stage of fools
Description: "This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures"--
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Clowns in literature, Clowns, Characters, Fools, Fools and jesters in literature, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, characters, Clown, DRAMA, Shakespeare, Hofnarr, Literarische Gestalt, Literature, Motiv, Narr, Shakespeare studies & criticism, English
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)