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 122
... Olivia has been angered by her fool's prolonged absence from the household and is thinking of dis- pensing with his services . When Olivia herself then enters , her atti- tude to him is distinctly chilly , and it takes an energetic ...
... Olivia has been angered by her fool's prolonged absence from the household and is thinking of dis- pensing with his services . When Olivia herself then enters , her atti- tude to him is distinctly chilly , and it takes an energetic ...
Pàgina 127
... Olivia would give him . After reflections on the likelihood of Olivia being attracted to him ( “ Maria once told me she did affect me , and I have heard herself come thus near , that should she fancy , it should one of my complexion ...
... Olivia would give him . After reflections on the likelihood of Olivia being attracted to him ( “ Maria once told me she did affect me , and I have heard herself come thus near , that should she fancy , it should one of my complexion ...
Pàgina 128
... Olivia sleeping , his real attention is not on any future sexual satisfac- tion he might achieve but rather on revenging the insults Toby's con- sanguinity has recently made him suffer . Compensating himself for his recent failures , he ...
... Olivia sleeping , his real attention is not on any future sexual satisfac- tion he might achieve but rather on revenging the insults Toby's con- sanguinity has recently made him suffer . Compensating himself for his recent failures , he ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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