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The stage clown in Shakespeare's theatre / Bente A. Videbaek.

Title
The stage clown in Shakespeare's theatre / Bente A. Videbaek.
Author
Videbaek, Bente A.
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.

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Description
viii, 215 p. ; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Contributions in drama and theatre studies, 0163-3821 ; no. 69
Uniform Title
Contributions in drama and theatre studies no. 69.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Characters > Clowns
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Stage history > To 1625
  • Clowns > England > History > 16th century
  • Clowns > England > History > 17th century
  • Rogues and vagabonds in literature
  • Fools and jesters in literature
  • Comic, The, in literature
  • Theater > England > History
  • Clowns in literature
  • Theater > England > History > 16th century
  • Theater > England > History > 17th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. I. Minor Roles: Cameo Appearance, Great Effect. 1. Rustic Clowns in Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew, Antony and Cleopatra. 2. Servant Clowns in Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, The Tempest. 3. Miscellaneous Clowns in Richard III, Hamlet, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale -- pt. II. Major Roles: Expanded Function. 4. Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. 5. The Dromios in The Comedy of Errors, Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew, Speed and Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 6. Costard in Love's Labour's Lost, Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice. 7. Pompey in Measure for Measure -- pt. III. The Court Jesters in the Comedies. 8. Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well. 9. Touchstone in As You Like It. 10. Feste in Twelfth Night -- pt. IV. The Clowns as "The Bitter Fool" 11. Thersites in Troilus and Cressida. 12. Lear's Fool in King Lear -- pt. V. Falstaff as Clown. 13. The Henriad.
ISBN
0313298726 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^95020556^
OCLC
  • 33079703
  • SCSB-12383434
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library