Shakespeare's Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in His WorkBucknell University Press, 2007 - 236 pàgines There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic. This title approaches this topic via a number of practical joke episodes, some of them well known - the deceptions Hal and Poins practice on Falstaff, the tricking of Malvolio or Parolles. |
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Pàgina 166
... Bertram or to anyone else . The fact that the young Count of Rossil- lion is unable to see through him in the way everyone else does is an obvious dramatic convenience ( the action may reveal Bertram as morally obtuse , but there are no ...
... Bertram or to anyone else . The fact that the young Count of Rossil- lion is unable to see through him in the way everyone else does is an obvious dramatic convenience ( the action may reveal Bertram as morally obtuse , but there are no ...
Pàgina 169
... Bertram will soon be on his way home . But in using the lords to expound the plot , he simultaneously transforms them into choric figures . Their discussion of Bertram contains clear instruc- tions as to what we are meant to think of ...
... Bertram will soon be on his way home . But in using the lords to expound the plot , he simultaneously transforms them into choric figures . Their discussion of Bertram contains clear instruc- tions as to what we are meant to think of ...
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... Bertram / Parolles comparison . Although Bertram is deceived by Diana and Helena , the bed trick is hardly a practical joke ( as I pointed out in discussing its source in Boc- caccio ) ; and if one result of the deception is that during ...
... Bertram / Parolles comparison . Although Bertram is deceived by Diana and Helena , the bed trick is hardly a practical joke ( as I pointed out in discussing its source in Boc- caccio ) ; and if one result of the deception is that during ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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