LEADER 04080nam 22005775 450 001 9910682544703321 005 20190516114113.0 010 $a1-5017-2711-7 010 $a1-5017-2712-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501727122 035 $a(CKB)4100000007145333 035 $a(OCoLC)1035784706 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5598732 035 $a(DE-B1597)503438 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501727122 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007145333 100 $a20190516d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPersistence of Folly $eOn the Origins of German Dramatic Literature /$fJoel B. Lande 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aSignale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought 311 $a1-5017-2710-9 311 $a1-5017-2713-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I. The Fool at Play -- $t1. Birth of a Comic Form -- $t2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool -- $t3. Practice of Stage Interaction -- $t4. The Fool's Space and Time -- $tPart II. Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Fool in the Age of Reform -- $t5. Making Comedy Whole -- $t6. Biases in Precedent -- $t7. Sanitation and Unity -- $t8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time -- $tPart III. Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool -- $t9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight -- $t10. The Place of Laughter in Life -- $t11. National Literature I: Improvement -- $t12. National Literature II: Custom -- $tPart IV. The Vitality of Folly in Goethe's Faust and Kleist's Jug -- $t13. Faust I: Setting the Stage -- $t14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust -- $t15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic -- $t16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist's Broken Jug -- $tPostlude -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aJoel B. Lande's Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a distraction from attempts to establish a serious dramatic tradition in the German language. Instead, the fool was both a fixture on the stage and a nearly ubiquitous theme in an array of literary critical, governmental, moral-philosophical, and medical discourses, figuring centrally in broad-based efforts to assign laughter a proper time, place, and proportion in society.Persistence of Folly reveals the fool as a cornerstone of the dynamic process that culminated in the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By reorienting the history of German theater, Lande's work conclusively shows that the highpoint of German literature around 1800 did not eliminate irreverent jest in the name of serious drama, but instead developed highly refined techniques for integrating the comic tradition of the stage fool. 410 0$aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 606 $aGerman drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFools and jesters in literature 606 $aGerman drama$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman drama$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGerman drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFools and jesters in literature. 615 0$aGerman drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman drama$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a832/.009 700 $aLande$b Joel B., $01349040 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910682544703321 996 $aPersistence of Folly$93086971 997 $aUNINA