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 85
... Poins so much more natural a companion for Hal than himself . During the practical joke in 2 Henry IV , which is the equiva- lent of the Gad's Hill episode , and in which Hal and Poins are dis- guised as waiters and can therefore ...
... Poins so much more natural a companion for Hal than himself . During the practical joke in 2 Henry IV , which is the equiva- lent of the Gad's Hill episode , and in which Hal and Poins are dis- guised as waiters and can therefore ...
Pàgina 86
... Poins by evoking a youthfulness that is common to both but from which he is necessarily excluded . " Why does the Prince love him so , then ? " asks Doll Tearsheet ( 2.4.243 ) . One or two of the rea- sons Falstaff gives are meaningless ...
... Poins by evoking a youthfulness that is common to both but from which he is necessarily excluded . " Why does the Prince love him so , then ? " asks Doll Tearsheet ( 2.4.243 ) . One or two of the rea- sons Falstaff gives are meaningless ...
Pàgina 101
... Poins's name ; that Poins is someone whom " it pleases me for fault of a better to call my friend " ; and that he must bleed inwardly for his father's sickness because , “ keeping such vile company as thou art hath in reason taken from ...
... Poins's name ; that Poins is someone whom " it pleases me for fault of a better to call my friend " ; and that he must bleed inwardly for his father's sickness because , “ keeping such vile company as thou art hath in reason taken from ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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