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  1. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Autor*in: Preiss, Richard
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "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... mehr

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Standort:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2014 A 14506
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    67.3872
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    "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"--

     
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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781107036574
    RVK Klassifikation: HI 1264 ; HI 1161
    Schlagworte: English drama; Fools and jesters in literature; Clowns in literature
    Umfang: x, 287 pages, illustrations, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-274) and index

    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.