Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 On Laughter, Fools, and Comedy -- 2 Simple, Peladito, and Rasquachi: Topsy-Turvying Identities -- 3 The Verbal and Kinesthetic Language of the Simpleton -- 4 Costumes and Other External Signs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno's character "Cantinflas," and in the esquirol of the 1960s Actos of the Teatro Campesino during the California farmworker strikes
