TY - BOOK AU - Lande,Joel B. ED - Project Muse. TI - Persistence of Folly : : On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature / T2 - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought SN - 9781501727122 PY - 2018/// CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library KW - German drama KW - Early modern KW - fast KW - German drama (Comedy) KW - Fools and jesters in literature KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - Germany KW - bisacsh KW - DRAMA KW - Continental European KW - Comedie allemande KW - Histoire et critique KW - Fous et bouffons dans la litterature KW - Theâtre allemand KW - 18e siecle KW - History and criticism KW - 18th century KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - The fool at play -- Fabricating comedy and fate of the fool in the age of reform -- Life, theater, and the restoration of the fool -- The vitality of folly in Goethe's Faust and Kleist's Jug; Open Access N2 - "Persistence of Folly revises the conventional literary-historical narrative of German theater (and literature) through the lens of the stage fool. Including original interpretations of Goethe's Faust (1808) and Kleist's Broken Jug (1811), this study considers how the stage fool was reworked and redeployed over two centuries, helping to create a German literature of world-historical rank"--Provided by publisher UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/62986/ ER -