Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse

by David Wiles

Book Overview

This book argues that a professional Elizabethan theatre company always contained one actor known as 'the clown'. Its focus is Will Kemp, clown to the Chamberlain's Men from 1594 to 1599 and famed for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521673348
• ISBN13: 9780521673341
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"