02574nam 2200577 a 450 991046563890332120200520144314.01-78170-098-21-84779-169-7(CKB)2560000000085749(EBL)1069608(OCoLC)818847348(SSID)ssj0000712849(PQKBManifestationID)12274048(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712849(PQKBWorkID)10650940(PQKB)11659655(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085750(MiAaPQ)EBC1069608(PPN)242623522(Au-PeEL)EBL1069608(CaPaEBR)ebr10623371(CaONFJC)MIL843503(EXLCZ)99256000000008574920090129d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShakespeare and laughter[electronic resource] a cultural history /Indira GhoseManchester ;New York Manchester University Pressc20081 online resource (239 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7190-8700-7 0-7190-7692-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Courtliness and laughter; 2 Laughter and recreation in the Shakespearean theatre; 3 Early modern humour; 4 The Puritans and laughter; 5 Lear's Fool; Select bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZThis book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical treatises and courtesy manuals to Puritan tracts and jestbook literature. It argues that few cultural phenomena have undergone as radical a change in meaning as laughter.Laughter became bound up with questioLaughter in literatureElectronic books.Laughter in literature.822.33Ghose Indira956844MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465638903321Shakespeare and laughter2167186UNINA