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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789169503321

Autore

Méndez-Montesinos Delia

Titolo

The ingenious simpleton : upending imposed ideologies through brief comic theatre / / Delia Méndez Montesinos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : University Press of America, Inc., , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-7618-6279-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Disciplina

862.052309

Soggetti

Fools and jesters in literature

Theater - History - 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 On Laughter, Fools, and Comedy; 2 Simple, Peladito, and Rasquachi: Topsy-Turvying Identities; 3 The Verbal and Kinesthetic Language of the Simpleton; 4 Costumes and Other External Signs; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno's character "Cantinflas," and in the esquirol of the 1960s Actos of the Teatro Campesino during the California farmworker strikes.