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Shakespeare and laughter : a cultural history

Title: Shakespeare and laughter : a cultural history / Indira Ghose.
Author: Ghose, Indira.
Publication: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2008.

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Description

230 pages; 23 cm

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."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index.

Contents

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

ISBN

9780719076923
0719076927

LCCN

2009275366
9780719076923

OCLC

ocn237885944
237885944
SCSB-14691466

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library