Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Unearthing Yoricks: Literary Archeology and the Ideologies of Early English Clowning
- 1 Folly as Proto-Racism: Blackface in the “Natural” Fool Tradition
- 2 “Sports and Follies Against the Pope”: Tudor Evangelical Lords of Misrule
- 3 “Verie Devout Asses”: Ignorant Puritan Clowns
- 4 The Fool “by Art”: The All-Licensed “Artificial” Fool in the King Lear Quarto
- Epilogue: License Revoked: Ending an Era
- Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Renaissance Literature
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Unearthing Yoricks: Literary Archeology and the Ideologies of Early English Clowning
- 1 Folly as Proto-Racism: Blackface in the “Natural” Fool Tradition
- 2 “Sports and Follies Against the Pope”: Tudor Evangelical Lords of Misrule
- 3 “Verie Devout Asses”: Ignorant Puritan Clowns
- 4 The Fool “by Art”: The All-Licensed “Artificial” Fool in the King Lear Quarto
- Epilogue: License Revoked: Ending an Era
- Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Renaissance Literature
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- The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare , pp. 205 - 222Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009