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Title Fools and jesters in literature, art, and history : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook / edited by Vicki K. Janik.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1998.

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Description xv, 552 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliography (p. [513]-519) and index.
Contents Woody Allen : the clown as tragic hero / Douglas Brode -- Anthropology of fools / C. Todd White -- Robert Armin / Dana E. Aspinall -- Archy Armstrong / Edmund Miller -- Badin / Yvonne LeBlanc -- Lucille Ball / Bruce Henderson -- Jean-Louis Barrault / Barry John Capella -- Beckett's postmodern clowns : Vladimir (Didi), Estragon (Gogo), Pozzo, and Lucky / Donald Perret -- Jack Benny / Janice Keller -- Birbal / Karen Treanor -- Bishop of Fools / Simonette Cochis -- George Burns and Gracie Allen : the Jewish vaudeville tradition / Marcia B. Littenberg -- Camp / C. Todd White -- Canio-Pagliacco and Petrouchka : two contrasting images of Pierrot / William D. West -- Charlie Chaplin / Daniel Green -- American circus clown / Del Ivan Janik -- Commedia dell'Arte / Angelica Forti-Lewis -- Native American coyote trickster tales and cycles / Ellen Rosenberg -- Drag queen / Carl Bryan Holmberg -- Sir John Falstaff / Alan Lutkus -- Feste / Neil Novelli -- W. C. Fields / Carl Bryan Holmberg -- Folly in the enduring tradition / Charles M. Kovich -- Fop : "Apes and echoes of men" : gentlemanly ideals and the restoration / Moria E. Casey -- Gimpel / Alice R. Kaminsky -- Joseph Grimaldi / Nancy J. D. Hazelton -- Forrest Gump : innocent fool / James M. O'Brien -- Hamlet / Malcolm A. Nelson -- Hephaestus, Hermes, and Prometheus : jesters to the gods / Margery L. Brown -- Heyoka of the Sioux / Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson -- Clowns of the Hopi / Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson -- Knaves and fools in Ben Jonson / Elizabeth Quay Sullivan -- Buster Keaton / Alan Lutkus -- William Kemp / James P. Bednarz -- Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy : yin and yang / Douglas Brode -- Lear's fool / Alan Hager -- Loki, the Norse fool / Carl Bryan Holmberg -- Marx Brothers / Vicki K. Janik -- Merry Report / Vicki K. Janik -- Paul the apostle / Mary A. Maleski -- Penasar of Bali : sacred clowns / Ron Jenkins -- Pierrot : dramatic and literary mask / John D. Anerson -- Plautus's clowns / Aaron W. Godfrey -- Puck/Robin Goodfellow / Jonathan Gil Harris -- Punch and Judy / F. Scott Regan and Bradford Clark -- Francois Rabelais / William J. Kennedy -- Martha Raye / Bruce Henderson -- Rigoletto / Peter N. Chetta -- Schlemiels and schlimazels / Joel Shatzky -- Seary circus / Anthony Giffone -- Socrates as fool in Aristophanes and Plato / David Luljak -- Will Sommers / Andrew Vogel Ettin -- Sottie, the sots, and the fols / Donald Perrot -- South African political clowning : laughter and resistance to apartheid / Ron Jenkins -- Country squires and bumpkins / Janet S. Wolf -- Three Stooges / Henry Sikorski -- Taishu Engeki : subverting the patterns of Japanese culture / Ron Jenkins -- Tarot fool / David Conford -- Tarot fool in English and American novels / David Conford -- Touchstone / Alan Lutkus -- Vice figure in middle English morality plays / David N. DeVries -- Vice in Henry Medwall's Nature / David N. DeVries -- Mae West / Marlene San Miguel Groner -- Yankee / Jack Hrkach -- Zanni / James Phillips.
Subject Comedians -- Biography.
Comedians -- Bibliography.
Drama -- Bio-bibliography.
Comedy -- Bio-bibliography.
Fools and jesters -- Bibliography.
Fools and jesters in literature.
Added Author Janik, Vicki K.
ISBN 0313297851

 
    
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