AN ATTACK OF THE CLOWNS: Comedy, Vagrancy, and the Elizabethan History Play.

The article discusses lower-class insurrection in three history plays from the 1590s: The Life and Death of Jack Straw, 2 Henry VI, and George a' Greene. Drawing attention to the leveling rhetoric of the texts' clown figures, Tom Miller, Simon Simpcox, Jack Cade, and Robin Hood, the article disputes...

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Publicado en:	Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 33 - 55
Autor principal:	Mathur, Maya
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Pennsylvania Press Spring/Summer2007
Materias:	Clowns in mythology Robin Hood (Legendary character) Early modern English drama Fools & jesters Clowns in literature Henry VI, Part I (Play : Shakespeare) Henry VI, Part II (Play : Shakespeare) Henry VI, Part III (Play : Shakespeare)
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