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Pages: 236
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Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society? Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Sh
History of European Drama and Theatre
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Erika Fischer-Lichte
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. T
Persistence of Folly
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Pages: 367
Authors: Joel B. Lande
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Joel B. Lande’s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, who
Carnivalizing Reconciliation
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Authors: Hanna Teichler
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Shakespeare's Folly
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Sam Hall
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay,