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 96
... able to avoid - with style and therefore dignity - the moral consequences of antisocial conduct , apparently inevitable for the rest of us , is exhilarating . The satisfaction it gives must be similar to that which successful gamblers ...
... able to avoid - with style and therefore dignity - the moral consequences of antisocial conduct , apparently inevitable for the rest of us , is exhilarating . The satisfaction it gives must be similar to that which successful gamblers ...
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... able to secure the knight's horse . But the dominant impression seems to me that , by engineering a situation in which a cowardly incompetent and a girl disguised as a young man believe they have to fight each other , he and his able ...
... able to secure the knight's horse . But the dominant impression seems to me that , by engineering a situation in which a cowardly incompetent and a girl disguised as a young man believe they have to fight each other , he and his able ...
Pàgina 188
... able to offer his victim ocular proof of his loved one's infidelity . In Much Ado About Nothing , Don Pedro's bastard brother , Don John , is hardly a co- median . On what is virtually his first appearance , he has one remark- able ...
... able to offer his victim ocular proof of his loved one's infidelity . In Much Ado About Nothing , Don Pedro's bastard brother , Don John , is hardly a co- median . On what is virtually his first appearance , he has one remark- able ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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