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 113
... Sir Toby and Feste are “ conservative ” figures , and there are therefore sound sociological reasons why they and Malvolio might not be destined to get on . Yet according to the vast majority of recent critics of this play , the real ...
... Sir Toby and Feste are “ conservative ” figures , and there are therefore sound sociological reasons why they and Malvolio might not be destined to get on . Yet according to the vast majority of recent critics of this play , the real ...
Pàgina 118
... Sir Toby's camp , al- though it is noticeable , even so , that she tries to use her proposal for the practical joke as a method for achieving the same effect Malvolio was seeking . After he has gone out , Sir Toby and Sir Andrew ex ...
... Sir Toby's camp , al- though it is noticeable , even so , that she tries to use her proposal for the practical joke as a method for achieving the same effect Malvolio was seeking . After he has gone out , Sir Toby and Sir Andrew ex ...
Pàgina 120
... Sir Toby's success in persuading Sir Andrew that he ought to fight a duel with the dis- guised Viola . Sir Toby can be represented as wanting to do this be- cause he needs to prevent Sir Andrew , who has been discouraged by the ...
... Sir Toby's success in persuading Sir Andrew that he ought to fight a duel with the dis- guised Viola . Sir Toby can be represented as wanting to do this be- cause he needs to prevent Sir Andrew , who has been discouraged by the ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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