The Fool in European Theatre: Stages of Folly
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Author(s)Tim Prentki
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN0230291597
ISBN-139780230291591
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Sales Rank4,116,307
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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 Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, Büchner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines the art of telling truth to power and surviving long enough to have a laugh.