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  1. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the... more

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    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the main event. Clowning epitomised a theatre that was heterogeneous, improvised and participatory, and irreducible to dramatic texts. How, then, did those texts emerge? Why did playgoers buy books that deleted not only the clown, but them as well? Challenging the narrative that clowns were 'banished' by playwrights like Shakespeare and Jonson, Richard Preiss argues that clowns such as Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin actually made playwrights possible - bridging, through the publication of their routines, the experience of 'live' and scripted performance. Clowning and Authorship tells the story of how, as the clown's presence decayed into print, he bequeathed the new categories around which theatre would organise: the author, and the actor"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107036574
    RVK Categories: HI 1264 ; HI 1161
    Subjects: English drama; Fools and jesters in literature; Clowns in literature
    Scope: x, 287 pages, illustrations, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-274) and index

    Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the play is not the thing; 1. What audiences did; 2. Send in the clown; 3. Wiring Richard Tarlton; 4. Nobody's business; 5. Private practice; Epilogue: the principal verb.

  2. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781107036574
    Subjects: English drama; Fools and jesters in literature; Clowns in literature
    Scope: X, 287 S., Ill.
  3. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the... more

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    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the main event. Clowning epitomised a theatre that was heterogeneous, improvised and participatory, and irreducible to dramatic texts. How, then, did those texts emerge? Why did playgoers buy books that deleted not only the clown, but them as well? Challenging the narrative that clowns were 'banished' by playwrights like Shakespeare and Jonson, Richard Preiss argues that clowns such as Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin actually made playwrights possible - bridging, through the publication of their routines, the experience of 'live' and scripted performance. Clowning and Authorship tells the story of how, as the clown's presence decayed into print, he bequeathed the new categories around which theatre would organise: the author, and the actor"..

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781107036574
    RVK Categories: HI 1161
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: English drama; Fools and jesters in literature; Clowns in literature; Englisch; Drama; Narr <Motiv>; Clown <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 287 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  4. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

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    ISBN: 9781107036574
    Subjects: English drama; Fools and jesters in literature; Clowns in literature
    Scope: X, 287 S. : Ill.
  5. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the... more

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    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the main event. Clowning epitomised a theatre that was heterogeneous, improvised and participatory, and irreducible to dramatic texts. How, then, did those texts emerge? Why did playgoers buy books that deleted not only the clown, but them as well? Challenging the narrative that clowns were 'banished' by playwrights like Shakespeare and Jonson, Richard Preiss argues that clowns such as Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin actually made playwrights possible - bridging, through the publication of their routines, the experience of 'live' and scripted performance. Clowning and Authorship tells the story of how, as the clown's presence decayed into print, he bequeathed the new categories around which theatre would organise: the author, and the actor"..

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781107036574
    RVK Categories: HI 1161
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: English drama; Fools and jesters in literature; Clowns in literature; Englisch; Drama; Narr <Motiv>; Clown <Motiv>
    Scope: X, 287 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  6. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the... more

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    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the main event. Clowning epitomised a theatre that was heterogeneous, improvised and participatory, and irreducible to dramatic texts. How, then, did those texts emerge? Why did playgoers buy books that deleted not only the clown, but them as well? Challenging the narrative that clowns were 'banished' by playwrights like Shakespeare and Jonson, Richard Preiss argues that clowns such as Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin actually made playwrights possible - bridging, through the publication of their routines, the experience of 'live' and scripted performance. Clowning and Authorship tells the story of how, as the clown's presence decayed into print, he bequeathed the new categories around which theatre would organise: the author, and the actor"--

     

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    Verlag (Inhaltsverzeichnis)
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107036574
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    9781107036574
    RVK Categories: HI 1264 ; HI 1161
    Subjects: English drama / History and criticism / Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; English drama; Fools and jesters in literature; Clowns in literature
    Scope: X, 287 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the play is not the thing; 1. What audiences did; 2. Send in the clown; 3. Wiring Richard Tarlton; 4. Nobody's business; 5. Private practice; Epilogue: the principal verb.

  7. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    ISBN: 9781107036574
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    Scope: x, 287 Seiten
  8. Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the... more

     

    "To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments - face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd - were the main event. Clowning epitomised a theatre that was heterogeneous, improvised and participatory, and irreducible to dramatic texts. How, then, did those texts emerge? Why did playgoers buy books that deleted not only the clown, but them as well? Challenging the narrative that clowns were 'banished' by playwrights like Shakespeare and Jonson, Richard Preiss argues that clowns such as Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin actually made playwrights possible - bridging, through the publication of their routines, the experience of 'live' and scripted performance. Clowning and Authorship tells the story of how, as the clown's presence decayed into print, he bequeathed the new categories around which theatre would organise: the author, and the actor"..

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107036574
    RVK Categories: HI 1161
    Subjects: English drama; Fools and jesters in literature; Clowns in literature
    Scope: x, 287 Seiten, Illustrationen
  9. Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study into how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre more

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    Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study into how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781107036574
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    Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The play is not the thing; Chapter 1 What audiences did; Authorship and the axis of reception; Against meaning; Theatrical success: or, audiences behaving badly; Theatrical failure: or, audiences still behaving badly; The improbability of playbooks; The inevitability of playbooks; Chapter 2 Send in the clown; After the epilogue, before the prologue; A king of shreds and patches; Tarlton's trunk-hose; First merriments; The neverending sideshow; Protoauthorship and its discontents; Scriptedness

    Chapter 3 Wiring Richard TarltonAbsolute interpreters; High fidelity; Posthumous actorship; Chapter 4 Nobody's business; "What I haue to say is of my owne making"; The distracted globe; Will in the world; Disappearing acts; Chapter 5 Private practice; The rise of the uncommon player; Interlocutions; Dark enigma; "We conclude togeather"; Going backward; Epilogue: The principal verb; Going forward; The city staged, the stage repossessed; Our bending author; Notes; Introduction: The play is not the thing; Chapter 1 What audiences did; Chapter 2 Send in the clown; Chapter 3 Wiring Richard Tarlton

    Chapter 4 Nobody's businessChapter 5 Private practice; Epilogue: The principal verb; Index