The Fool in European Theatre [electronic resource] : Stages of Folly
出版項
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
說明
1 online resource (238 p.)
附註
Description based upon print version of record
Cover; Contents; 1 Fooling with Gods and Men; 2 Fooling with Carnival and Lent; 3 Fooling with Falstaff; 4 Fooling with Love; 5 Fooling with Kings; 6 Fooling with Reason; 7 Fooling with Contradiction; 8 Fooling with Revolution; 9 Fooling with Existence; 10 Fooling with Applications; Bibliography; Index;
Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society? Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, Büchner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines the art of telling truth to power and surviving long enough to have a laugh
