The Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction 1
• Part I - Minor Roles: Cameo Appearance, Great Effect 5
• 1 - Rustic Clowns in Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew, Antony and Cleopatra 7
• Notes 11
• 2 - Servant Clowns in Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, The Tempest 13
• Notes 22
• 3 - Miscellaneous Clowns in Richard III, Hamlet, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale 23
• Notes 35
• Part II - Major Roles: Expanded Function 37
• 4 - Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing 39
• Notes 52
• 5 - The Dromios in The Comedy of Errors, Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew, Speed and Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona 53
• Notes 60
• 6 - Costard in Love's Labour's Lost, Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice 63
• Notes 68
• 7 - Pompey in Measure for Measure 69
• Note 74
• Part III - The Court Jesters in the Comedies 75
• 8 - Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well 77
• Notes 84
• 9 - Touchstone in As You Like It 85
• Notes 94
• 10 - Feste in Twelfth Night 95
• Notes 108
• Part IV - The Clown as The Bitter Fool"" 111
• 11 - Thersites in Troilus and Cressida 113
• Notes 122
• 12 - Lear's Fool in King Lear 123
• Notes 135
• Part V - Falstaff as Clown 137
• 13 - The Henriad 139
• Notes 156
• 14 - The Merry Wives of Windsor 159
• Note 167
• Part VI - Clown Characteristics in Nonclown Characters 169
• 15 - Philip the Bastard in King John 171
• Notes 176
• 16 - Hamlet in Hamlet 177
• Note 190
• Conclusion 191
• Appendix: The Elizabethan Clown 195
• Notes 199
• Bibliography 201
• Index 207
• Index of Acts and Scenes 213
• About the Author 216

Work saved from this book