TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ghose,Indira
TI  - Shakespeare and laughter: a cultural history 
SN  - 9781847791696
AV  - PR2994 .S535 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Laughter in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1 and index; Courtliness and laughter --; Laughter and recreation in the Shakespearean theatre --; Early modern humour --; The Puritans and laughter --; Lear's Fool; 2; b
N2  - This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical treatises and courtesy manuals to Puritan tracts and jestbook literature. It argues that few cultural phenomena have undergone as radical a change in meaning as laughter. Laughter became bound up with questio
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