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rev_number: 30
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datestamp: 2022-09-09 08:21:02
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type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Härter, Pia Katharina
title: From Plautus to Shakespeare: The Fool and its Metamorphosis in the Context of Cultural Dynamics
subjects: ddc-420
subjects: ddc-470
subjects: ddc-800
divisions: i-70900
adv_faculty: af-07
keywords: Drama, Komödie, Tragödie, Plautus, Shakespeare
cterms_swd: Lateinische Literatur
cterms_swd: Englische Literatur
cterms_swd: Theater
cterms_swd: Rezeption
abstract: This dissertation investigates the fool 
figure’s complexity and the transformation from Plautus’ clever slaves to Shakespeare’s clever 
servants, witty heroines and most of all, the wise fool. The thesis offers a detailed description of Plautus’ "servus callidus", 
his concept, embedment, and function for comedy as a prototype of the professional fool. To analyze the relations between those 
instantiations of one type distanced by centuries and their ideologies, an explanatory model 
for cultural dynamics will be introduced. It is an 
attempt to understand the transformation of popular configurations juxtaposing folly and 
wisdom, the comparability and continuity of the underlying pattern paradox, and its sequence 
of productivity. This thesis investigates the productivity of the pattern and its type in Shakespeare’s
plays, focusing on Plautus’ clever slave as an available source.
date: 2022
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00032008
ppn_swb: 181800786X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-320082
date_accepted: 2017-09-27
advisor: HASH(0x558eaa896888)
language: eng
bibsort: HARTERPIAKFROMPLAUTU
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Härter, Pia Katharina  (2022) From Plautus to Shakespeare: The Fool and its Metamorphosis in the Context of Cultural Dynamics.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32008/1/H%C3%A4rter_From%20Plautus%20to%20Shakespeare_Diss.HeiDOK_pdfA1b%20-%20Kopie.pdf