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题名/责任者:

Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre / Richard Preiss.

出版发行项:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

ISBN:

9781107036574 (Hardback) :

载体形态项:

x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

个人责任者:

Preiss, Richard.

论题主题:

English drama-Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Fools and jesters in literature.

论题主题:

Clowns in literature.

中图法分类号:

I561.073

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-274) and index.

内容附注:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the play is not the thing; 1. What audiences did; 2. Send in the clown; 3. Wiring Richard Tarlton; 4. Nobody's business; 5. Private practice; Epilogue: the principal verb.

摘要附注:

"To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the main event. Clowning epitomised a theatre that was heterogeneous, improvised and participatory, and irreducible to dramatic texts. How, then, did those texts emerge? Why did playgoers buy books that deleted not only the clown, but them as well? Challenging the narrative that clowns were 'banished' by playwrights like Shakespeare and Jonson, Richard Preiss argues that clowns such as Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin actually made playwrights possible - bridging, through the publication of their routines, the experience of 'live' and scripted performance. Clowning and Authorship tells the story of how, as the clown's presence decayed into print, he bequeathed the new categories around which theatre would organise: the author, and the actor"--Provided by publisher.

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