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No Kidding! Clown as Protagonist in Twentieth-Century Theater. By Donald McManus. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2003; pp. 190. $39.50 cloth.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2004
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The century that featured two world wars, mass murder, and nuclear terror was also a century in which clowns ceased to be comic. So Donald McManus suggests in his book about clowns who face their own deaths: suicides, mock executions, and hangings. No wonder the book is titled No Kidding! That phrase is a translation of the Swiss clown Grock's “Sans blââgue!”—words through which the popular circus artist indicated “to his audience the potentially serious nature of his comic turns,” according to McManus (11).
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