The English clown tradition from the middle ages to Shakespeare

Robert Hornback

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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English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare edition · 2013 · Boydell & Brewer, Limited · 256 pages · 9781843843566
The English clown tradition from the middle ages to Shakespeare edition · 2009 · D.S. Brewer · 240 pages · 9781843842002
English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare edition · 2009 · Boydell & Brewer, Limited · 256 pages · 9781846157202

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