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200 10$aShakespeare and laughter$b[electronic resource] $ea cultural history /$fIndira Ghose
210   $aManchester ;$aNew York $cManchester University Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (239 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-7190-8700-7 
311   $a0-7190-7692-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index.
327   $aContents; 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; Z
330   $aThis 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 questio
606   $aLaughter in literature
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aLaughter in literature.
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