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Shakespeare's fools: the smart, the dim and the eerie.

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Apr2017 (Volume) 27 (Number) 4
Medium (Periodical) English Review.
Classif 820 ENG
Subject English
Page 6 - 9
Authors Fletcher, Louis
Contents

Are the fools in Shakespeare's plays there to ornament his principal characters, asks the author, or do they serve some deeper function?

Keywords
Bathos     Comedy     Dramatic irony     Malapropisms     Plays     William Shakespeare