LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert hornback

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  • Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions
    Robert Hornback
    This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical ’black speech’ explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare. Jim Crow and antebellum minstrelsy recycled Old World blackface ...
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    84,51 €

  • The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare
    Robert Hornback
    English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance from the late medieval period through to the seventeenth century, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, at the close of the Renaissance, when the `license’ of fooling was revoked.This survey of clown traditions during the period looks at their history and reveals their hidden cultural contexts ...
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    26,50 €