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Author:   Sam Hall
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781138655225

ISBN 10:   1138655228
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   22 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements A Note on References Chapter One: 1.1. Introduction 1.2. A Philosophy of Folly? 1.3. Shakespearean Fools Chapter Two: Humanism and Shakespearean Folly 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Stultitia’s Metamorphosis 2.3. Dialectics and Utopian Enlightenment 2.4. Playing the Fool in Utopia 2.5. Playing and Mocking 2.6. Essaying Folly 2.7. Identity Critique Chapter Three: Opening the Silenus: The Fool’s Truth 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Theology and the Silenus 3.3. Silenic Style 3.4. The Casket Test 3.5. Self-Serving Mercy 3.6. Epilogue Chapter Four: Jesting at the Court of History 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Degeneracy 4.3. Deformities 4.4. Echoes of Folly 4.5. Telling the Truth through Lies 4.6. Cretan Historians 4.7. The Use and Abuse of History Chapter Five: Love’s Fools 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Inhuman Allegories 5.3. Temporality and Allegory 5.4. True, False, Other: The Logic of Folly 5.5. Love’s ‘Strange Capers’ 5.6. The World Turned Upside-Down 5.7. Modalities of Melancholy 5.8. What a Fool Honesty is 5.9. Losing Eden Chapter Six: Folly and Aesthetic Judgement 6.1. Pitiful ambition in the fool 6.2. Your sovereignty of reason 6.3. Here’s fine revolution 6.4. Your fat king and your lean beggar 6.5. Terrible Eloquence 6.6. Reason in Madness 6.7. The excellent foppery of man 6.8. A 0 without a Figure 6.9. This prophecy Merlin shall make 6.10. Let us deal justly 6.11. Thy life’s a miracle Epilogue: Sapere aude?

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Sam Gilchrist Hall is a Teacher of English at the British Council, Hungary, and a Visiting Instructor at the University of Debrecen.　

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