Persistence of folly : on the origins of German dramatic literature /
"Persistence of Folly revises the conventional literary-historical narrative of German theater (and literature) through the lens of the stage fool. Including original interpretations of Goethe's Faust (1808) and Kleist's Broken Jug (1811), this study considers how the stage fool was r...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
2018.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt21h4wxh |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The fool at play
- Fabricating comedy and fate of the fool in the age of reform
- Life, theater, and the restoration of the fool
- The vitality of folly in Goethe's Faust and Kleist's Jug.