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Title Fools and jesters in literature, art, and history : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook / edited by Vicki K. Janik
Published Westport [Conn.] : Greenwood Press, 1998

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Description xv, 552 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction -- Woody Allen: The Clown as Tragic Hero</em> by Douglas Brode -- The Anthropology of Fools</em> by C. Todd White -- Robert Armin</em> by Edmund Miller -- Archy Armstrong</em> by Dana E. Aspinall -- The Badin</em> by Yvonne LeBlanc -- Lucille Ball</em> by Bruce Henderson -- Jean Louis Barrault</em> by Barry John Capella -- Beckett's Postmodern Clowns: Vladimir (Didi), Estragon (Gogo), Pozzo, and Lucky</em> by Donald Perret -- Jack Benny</em> by Janice Keller -- Birbal</em> by Karen Treanor -- The Bishop of Fools</em> by Simonette Cochis -- George Burns and Gracie Allen: The Jewish Vaudeville Tradition</em> by Marcia B. Littenberg -- The Camp</em> by C. Todd White -- Canio-Pagliacco and Petrouchka</em> by William D. West -- Charlie Chaplin</em> by Daniel Green -- The American Circus Clown</em> by Del Ivan Janik -- Commedia ell'Arte</em> by Angelica Forti-Lewis -- Native American Coyote Trickster Tales and Cycles</em> by Ellen Rosenberg -- The Drag Queen</em> by Carl Bryan Holmberg -- Sir John Falstaff</em> by Alan Lutkus -- Feste</em> by Neil Novelli -- W.C. Fields</em> by Carl Bryan Holmberg -- Folly in "In the Praise of Folly"</em> by Charles M. Kovich -- The Fop: "Apes and Echoes of Men": Gentlemanly Ideals and the Restoration</em> by Moira E. Casey -- Gimpel</em> by Alice R. Kaminsky -- Joseph Grimaldi</em> by Nancy J.D. Hazelton -- Forrest Gump: Innocent Fool</em> by James M. O'Brien -- Hamlet</em> by Malcolm A. Nelson -- Hephaestus, Hermes, and Prometheus: Jesters to the Gods</em> by Margery L. Brown -- The Heyoka of the Sioux</em> by Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson -- Clowns of the Hopi</em> by Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson -- Ben Jonson</em> by Elizabeth Quay Sullivan -- Buster Keaton</em> by Alan Lutkus -- William Kemp</em> by James P. Bednarz -- Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy: Yin and Yang</em> by Douglas Brode -- Lear's Fool</em> by Alan Hager -- Loki, the Norse Fool</em> by Carl Bryan Holmberg -- The Marx Brothers</em> by Vicki K. Janik -- Merry Report</em> by Vicki K. Janik -- Paul the Apostle</em> by Mary A. Maleski -- Penasar of Bali: Sacred Clowns</em> by Ron Jenkins -- Pierrot: Dramatic and Literary Mask</em> by John D. Anderson -- Platus's Clowns</em> by Aaron W. Godfrey -- Puck/Robin Goodfellow</em> by Jonathan Gil Harris -- Punch and Judy</em> by F. Scott Regan and Bradford Clark -- Francois Rabelais</em> by William J. Kennedy -- Martha Raye</em> by Bruce Henderson -- Rigoletto</em> by Peter N. Chetta -- Schlemiels and Schlimazels</em> by Joel Shatzky -- The Sleary Circus</em> by Anthony Giffone -- Socrates as Fool in Aristophanes and Plato</em> by David Luljak -- Will Sommers</em> by Andrew Vogel Ettin -- The Sottie, the Sots, and the Fols</em> by Donald Perret -- South African Political Clowning: Laughter and Resistance to Apartheid</em> by Ron Jenkins -- Country Squires and Bumpkins</em> by Janet S. Wolf -- The Three Stooges</em> by Henry Sikorski -- Taishu Engeki: Subverting the Patterns of Japanese Culture</em> by Ron Jenkins -- The Tarot Fool</em> by David Conford -- The Tarot Fool in English</em> and American Novels</em&g
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-519) and index
Subject Comedians -- Bibliography.
Comedians -- Biography.
Comedy -- Bio-bibliography.
Drama -- Bio-bibliography.
Fools and jesters in literature.
Fools and jesters -- Bibliography.
Author Janik, Vicki K.
LC no. 97033144
ISBN 0313297851