Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools

2011
ISBN: 978-1-137-34675-9
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 255 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Motley to the View Follies of Identity: A Midsummer Night's Dream The Fool's Two Bodies: "The Henriad" Feigning & Fooling in As You Like It Foolery shines everywhere: Twelfth Night The Fate of Folly: Much Ado About Nothing Scourges of Folly Motley Tales and Strange Bedfellows Unconsidered Trifles: A Fool's Horn Book

Über Autor(innen)

ROBERT HUNTLEY BELL is Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of English at Williams College, USA.