Clowning and authorship in early modern theatre / Richard Preiss.
"To early modern audiences, the 'clown' was much more than a minor play character. A celebrity performer, he was a one-man sideshow whose interactive entertainments -- face-pulling, farce interludes, jigs, rhyming contests with the crowd -- were the main event. Clowning epitomised a t...
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