Table of Contents

David ROBB: Introduction
Robert CHEESMOND: Where the Antic Sits
Faye RAN: Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool
Ashley TOBIAS: The Postmodern Theatre Clown
Rüdiger GÖRNER: Nietzsche and the Praise of Masks
Maxim Leonid WEINTRAUB: Clowning Around at the Limits of Representation: On Fools, Fetishes and Bruce Naumann’s Clown Torture
Barbara LEWIS: An American Circus: the Lynch Victim as Clown
Kayode Gboyega KOFOWOROLA: The Court Jester in Nigerian Drama
Ron JENKINS: “Fratello Arlecchino”: Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali
Stephen KNAPPER: Scaramouche: The Mask and the Millenium
Des O’RAWE: The Cinema of Masks: Commedia dell ‘Arte and Jean Renoir’s The Golden Coach
David ROBB: From Nestroy to Wenzel & Mensching: Carnivalesque Revolutionaries in the German-Speaking Theatrical Tradition
Marina KOTZAMANI: Karlos Koun, Karaghiozis and The Birds: Aristophanes as Popular Theatre
Stephen LLANO: The Clown as Social Critic: Kerouac’s Vision
Bernhard MALKMUS: Picaresque Narratology: Lazarillo de Tormes and Edgar Hilsenrath’s Der Nazi und der Friseur

About the Author

David Robb is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts at the Queen’s University of Belfast. He developed an interest in theatrical clowning while researching his PhD on the East Berlin cabaret duo Wenzel & Mensching, who integrated aspects of commedia dell’arte into their political song act. David Robb’s book Zwei Clowns im Lande des verlorenen Lachens: Das Liedertheater Wenzel & Mensching was published in 1998. He is a specialist in German political song and has recently published the book Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s. He is also an experienced songwriter and performing musician.

Reviews

”[a] facinating book … this book’s strength is to be found in its multi-dimensional, multi-role, identity” in: Dramatherapy, Vol. 30, No 2, Autumn 2008