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 73
... Henry would not be the " mirror of all Christian kings " ( 2.0.6 ) if he had not previously been much concerned with this question of moral responsibility , but it is Williams himself who lets him off the hook by diverting the discus ...
... Henry would not be the " mirror of all Christian kings " ( 2.0.6 ) if he had not previously been much concerned with this question of moral responsibility , but it is Williams himself who lets him off the hook by diverting the discus ...
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... Henry's challenge . Pointing out that “ all offences ... come from the heart " ( 4.8.46 ) , he first of all insists that he had no intention of insulting his king . When Henry replies not with argument but a simple reversion to the ...
... Henry's challenge . Pointing out that “ all offences ... come from the heart " ( 4.8.46 ) , he first of all insists that he had no intention of insulting his king . When Henry replies not with argument but a simple reversion to the ...
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... Henry , 34 Flaubert , Gustave , 147 Foote , Samuel , 95 Frazer , James , 52 Frayn , Michael , 74 , 133 , 152–54 ... Henry IV plays , the , 50-51 , 72 , 84–109 , 152 , 165-66 , 184 Henry IV : Part One , 70 , 72 , 84-109 , 203 Henry IV ...
... Henry , 34 Flaubert , Gustave , 147 Foote , Samuel , 95 Frazer , James , 52 Frayn , Michael , 74 , 133 , 152–54 ... Henry IV plays , the , 50-51 , 72 , 84–109 , 152 , 165-66 , 184 Henry IV : Part One , 70 , 72 , 84-109 , 203 Henry IV ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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