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...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 33 - 55 |
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Spring/Summer2007
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