Embracing Disruption by Stephen Wisker - 9781032740799

Embracing DisruptionClowning, Improvisation, and the Unscripted in Early Shakespearean Performance\nAuthor(s): Stephen Wisker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032740799, 978-1032740799\nSynopsis\nThis volume celebrates the centrality of clowning in Shakespeares conception of theatre and explores how he purposefully invited the clowns anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy.\n\nClowning was a potent but divisive force in the theater of Shakespeares time, challenging the emerging tyranny of decorum and the developing notion of the authorial voice. As such, the figure of the clown is key to understanding the pervasive tension between existing and emergent forms of Elizabethan theater, and unlocks forgotten levels of meaning in Shakespeares plays, meanings that were only fully experienced in performance rather than on the page. The great clown Dick Tarleton dominated the London theater of the 1580s and deepl.