The Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre (Hardcover)

Introduction Minor Roles: Cameo Appearance, Great Effect Rustic Clowns in Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew, Antony and Cleopatra Servant Clowns in Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, The Tempest Miscellaneous Clowns in Richard III, Hamlet, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale Major Roles: Expanded Function Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing The Dromios in The Comedy of Errors, Speed and Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona Costard in Love's Labour's Lost, Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice Pompey in Measure for Measure The Court Jesters in the Comedies Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well Touchstone in As You Like It Feste in Twelfth Night The Clown as "The Bitter Fool" Thersites in Troilus and Cressida Lear's Fool in King Lear Falstaff as Clown The Henriad The Merry Wives of Windsor Clown Characteristics in Non-Clown Characters Philip the Bastard in King John Hamlet in Hamlet Conclusion Appendix: The Elizabethan Clown Bibliography Index