Cavendish's Clowns: Uses of Wise Folly in Four Plays by Margaret Cavendish

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cavendish's Clowns: Uses of Wise Folly in Four Plays by Margaret Cavendish

Original language description

This article explores the significance of the figures of folly in four plays by Margaret Cavendish: The Matrimonial Trouble, published in her first volume of drama, Playes, in 1662, and The Presence, The Bridals and The Convent of Pleasure from the 1668 Plays, Never Before Printed. An author of considerable breadth and some influence in her day, Cavendish, who also published poetry, natural philosophy, essays and a plethora of other genres, wrote at a time when the literature of folly, immensely popular only a few decades earlier, fell out of favour. After close consideration of the ways artificial fools are used in the four aforementioned plays, Cavendish&apos;s decision to include these fools - so far largely passed over in criticism - is interpreted as an example of her creative appropriation of early modern folly as a discursive phenomenon which was, at its height in the works of Erasmus, Shakespeare, Rabelais and others, employed as a way of questioning the knowledge of the ostensibly reasonable world.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture

ISSN

0862-8424

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

61

Issue of the periodical within the volume

32

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

54-77

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85124845520