Shakespeare´s Clown: Actor and text in the Elizabethan Playhouse

Sobre el libro Shakespeare´s Clown: Actor and text in the Elizabethan Playhouse de David Wiles publicado por Cambridge UP al 2005:

This book argues that a professional Elizabethan theatre company always contained one actor known as 1the clown´. Wiles combines textual, theatrical and biographical lines of research in order to map out Kemp´s career. The book also describes the clown tradition in general.