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The fool and his scepter; a study in clowns and jesters and their audience.

Title: The fool and his scepter; a study in clowns and jesters and their audience.
Author: Willeford, William.
Publication: [Evanston, Ill.] Northwestern University Press, 1969.

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Description

xxii, 265 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 25 cm

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Bibliography (note)

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 237-257)

Contents

Part one : The fool and his show -- The fool as an apparition -- Some basic characteristics of the fool -- The fool and mimesis -- Part two : The pattern of folly -- The permanence of the fool -- The fool as primitive and magical -- Order and chaos and the fool -- The fool and "good" and "bad" -- The fool, the boundary, and the center -- Part three : The fool and the kingdom -- The king, the hero, and the fool -- The fool and the woman -- The tragic dimension of folly : Hamlet -- The comic dimension of folly : Buster Keaton's The General -- The sovereign fool : The tragedy of King Lear -- The republic of folly and the holy fool.

ISBN

0810100029
9780810100022
0810105330
9780810105331
0810200029 (canceled/invalid)
0713154659 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

69012850

OCLC

ocm00011909
11909
SCSB-121292

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library