The English clown tradition from the middle ages to Shakespeare
earliest edition we have, 2009 D.S. Brewer, 2009 240 pages
Studies in Renaissance literature -- v. — book 26
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...
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