Joel B. Landeâ s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary...
Joel B. Landeâ s Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary...
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Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Joel Lande is an Assistant Professor in the Department of German at Princeton University.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I The Fool at Play: Comic Practice and the Strolling Players 1. Birth of a Comic Form 2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool 3. Practice of Stage Interaction 4. The Fool's Space and Time Part II Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Foolin the Age of Reform 5. Making Comedy Whole 6. Biases in Precedent 7. Sanitation and Unity 8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time Part III Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool 9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight 10. The Place of Laughter in Life 11. National Literature I: Improvement 12. National Literature II: Custom Part IV The Vitality of Folly in Goethe's Faustand Kleist's Jug 13. Faust I: Setting the Stage 14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust 15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic 16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist's Broken Jug Postlude Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I The Fool at Play: Comic Practice and the Strolling Players 1. Birth of a Comic Form 2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool 3. Practice of Stage Interaction 4. The Fool's Space and Time Part II Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Foolin the Age of Reform 5. Making Comedy Whole 6. Biases in Precedent 7. Sanitation and Unity 8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time Part III Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool 9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight 10. The Place of Laughter in Life 11. National Literature I: Improvement 12. National Literature II: Custom Part IV The Vitality of Folly in Goethe's Faustand Kleist's Jug 13. Faust I: Setting the Stage 14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust 15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic 16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist's Broken Jug Postlude Bibliography Index
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