"THE NATURAL PROPENSITY OF IMITATION": or, Pantomimic Poetics and the Rhetoric of Augustan Wit.

Drawing attention to the complex reciprocal relationship between commercialized leisure and commercial literature in the so-called "Age of Wit," this essay reconceives of the witty and witless in two important ways. Taking for granted, first of all, that wit is usually analyzed in terms of the effic...

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Published in:	Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 51 - 96
Main Author:	DOMINGO, DARRYL P.
Format:	Essay
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Fall/WInter2009
Subjects:	Essays Wit & humor > History & criticism Dance Mime Literary criticism Satire Harlequin (Fictional character) Early Modern Period (Literary period)
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