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Signifying Nothing: Easier Done than Said?

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This essay takes as its starting point a paradox inherent in the theatrical use of language: the communication of meaning renders the representation of 'pure' folly--nonsense--problematic and unstable. This paradox is explored with reference to a number of instances drawn from the early modern English theatre but also from certain French 'miracles'. On the basis of the latter, it is hypothesised that the character-types of the wise fool and the pretended fool may have a double heritage, at once theatrical and theological. Not only is their nonsense mediated and contextualised by meaning--in several forms--but their folly vacillates between divine and human aspects.
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halshs-01071415 , version 1 (04-10-2014)

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Richard Hillman. Signifying Nothing: Easier Done than Said?. Richard Hillman. The Discourses of Folly, Onstage and Off, Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université de Tours/CNRS, pp.87-100, 2014, Theta--Théâtre Tudor, vol. XI. ⟨halshs-01071415⟩
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