PDF⋙ The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare (Studies in Renaissance Literature) by Robert Hornback
The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare (Studies in Renaissance Literature) by Robert Hornback The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare (Studies in Renaissance Literature) by Robert Hornback PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries. It begins with an exploration of previously un-noted early representations of blackness in medieval psalters, cycle...