Clowns, fools and picaros : popular forms in theatre, fiction and film /

Table of Contents: “…Clowns, Fools and Picaros; Contents; Introduction; Where The Antic Sits; Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool; The Postmodern Theatre Clown; Nietzsche and the Praise of Masks; Clowning Around at the Limits of Representation: On Fools, Fetishes and Bruce Nauman's Clown Torture; An American Circus: the Lynch Victim as Clown; The Court Jester in Nigerian Drama; "Fratello Arlecchino": Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali; Scaramouche: The Mask and the Millenium.; The Cinema of Masks: Commedia dell'Arte and Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach…”
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