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As circus gets serious, is all the fun of the fair lost?

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

The Cambridge Companion to the Circus Gillian Arrighi and Jim Davis

CUP, pp.320, 75

What’s so serious about a red nose? How should we analyse the ‘specific socio-historical relations’ and ‘aesthetic trends particular to geographic context’ of the circus? How can we ‘codify’ equestrian performance in the ring?

With the publication of The Cambridge Companion to the Circus, this artform has tumbled out of the Big Top and into the library and lecture hall.

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