"'But I do it more naturally': Falstaff's 'Original Clowning Practice' vs. Theatrical Naturalism"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc1527/
Author:
	Hornback, Robert.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2014
Publication Information:
	The Hare: Brief Essays and Untimely Reviews in Renaissance Literature (2): no. 1 (2013). (http://tinyurl.com/qas84eo.)
Annotation:
	"Invite[s] considerations of what we might call 'original clowning practices' by examining some of the early performance conventions and traditions employed by Elizabethan stage clowns." Contrasts Renaissance English clown practices with "modern theatrical 'method' that too often works against the dynamics of original clowning practice." Argues that Falstaff in 1 Henry IV represents the "grotesque satirical description of the clown" and "explore[s] how this exemplary part can be studied for its encryption of original methods and modes of clowning."
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	Falstaff; clown
Tags:
	1 Henry IV, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Fall 2014
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc1527