Shakespeare and laughter : a cultural history / Indira Ghose

By:

Ghose, Indira [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781847791696
1847791697
9781781700983
1781700982

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespeare and laughter.DDC classification:

822.33

LOC classification:

PR2994 .G48 2008eb

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Contents:

Courtliness and laughter -- Laughter and recreation in the Shakespearean theatre -- Early modern humour -- The Puritans and laughter -- Lear's Fool

Summary: This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical treatises and courtesy manuals to Puritan tracts and jestbook literature. It argues that few cultural phenomena have undergone as radical a change in meaning as laughter. Laughter became bound up with questio.

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This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical treatises and courtesy manuals to Puritan tracts and jestbook literature. It argues that few cultural phenomena have undergone as radical a change in meaning as laughter. Laughter became bound up with questio.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Courtliness and laughter -- Laughter and recreation in the Shakespearean theatre -- Early modern humour -- The Puritans and laughter -- Lear's Fool

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