Persistence of Folly : : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / / Joel B. Lande.

• VerfasserIn: Lande, Joel B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Joel 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 centur...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. The Fool at Play
• 1. Birth of a Comic Form
• 2. Strolling Players and the Advent of the Fool
• 3. Practice of Stage Interaction
• 4. The Fool's Space and Time
• Part II. Fabricating Comedy and the Fate of the Fool in the Age of Reform
• 5. Making Comedy Whole
• 6. Biases in Precedent
• 7. Sanitation and Unity
• 8. Comedic Plot, Comic Time, Dramatic Time
• Part III. Life, Theater, and the Restoration of the Fool
• 9. Policey and the Legitimacy of Delight
• 10. The Place of Laughter in Life
• 11. National Literature I: Improvement
• 12. National Literature II: Custom
• Part IV. The Vitality of Folly in Goethe's Faust and Kleist's Jug
• 13. Faust I: Setting the Stage
• 14. Faust II: Mirroring and Framing in the Form of Faust
• 15. Faust III: The Diabolical Comic
• 16. Antinomies of the Classical: On Kleist's Broken Jug
• Postlude
• Bibliography
• Index