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Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society? Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, B?chner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines the art of telling truth to power and surviving long enough to have a laugh.

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Book category Books in English The arts Theatre studies

• Full title: Fool in European Theatre
• Subtitle: Stages of Folly
• Author: Tim Prentki
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 229
• EAN: 9781349332076
• ISBN: 1349332070
• ID: 12041982
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 367 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 229 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2012

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