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FURTHER READING

Battenhouse, Roy. "Falstaff as Parodist and Perhaps Holy Fool." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 90, No. 1 (January 1975): 32-52.

Regards Falstaff of the Henriad as a devout Christian in the guise of a fool.

Brown, John Russell. "Laughter in the Last Plays." In Later Shakespeare, Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies, edited by John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris, No. 8, pp. 103-25. London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1966.

Includes a discussion of the clown performances in Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, Pericles, and The Tempest.

Frye, Dean. "The Question of Shakespearean 'Parody.'" Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism XV, No. 1 (January 1965): 22-26.

Disputes the critical position that the comic subplots and characters in Shakespeare's plays parody the main plot and...

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1. Introduction
2. Overviews
3. Fools In The Histories And Historical Fools
4. Fools In The Comedies
5. Fools In The Tragedies
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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