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Author Wiles, David.

Title Shakespeare's clown : actor and text in the Elizabethan playhouse / David Wiles
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Description xiv, 223 pages : facsimiles ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note; 1. The Vice: from Mankind to Merchant of Venice; 2. Tarlton: the first 'clown'; 3. Kemp: a biography; 4. Kemp's jigs; 5. 'The clown' in playhouse terminology; 6. The roles of Kemp 'the clown'; 7. The genesis of the text: two explorations; 8. The conventions governing Kemp's scripted roles; 9. Falstaff; 10. Robert Armin; 11. William Kemp and Harry Hunks: play as game, actor as sign - a theoretical conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Analysis Drama in English Shakespeare, William Characters Fools
Drama in English Shakespeare, William Characters: Fools - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 192-218
Subject Kemp, W. (William)
Kemp, William, active 1600.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Clowns.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Fools.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with actors
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Authors and theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Clowns -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Clowns -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Fools and jesters in literature.
Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 86028393
ISBN 0521328403