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 102
... already shown in discussing Christopher Sly , some of that power is surrendered when the perpe- trators engineer situations where their victims can act with impunity , because any immediate response to their remarks would usually mean ...
... already shown in discussing Christopher Sly , some of that power is surrendered when the perpe- trators engineer situations where their victims can act with impunity , because any immediate response to their remarks would usually mean ...
Pàgina 121
... already include at least one determined enemy . Feste is a comedian , and no comedian is likely to relish a stinging attack on his professional competence , or easily forget it . “ I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren ...
... already include at least one determined enemy . Feste is a comedian , and no comedian is likely to relish a stinging attack on his professional competence , or easily forget it . “ I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren ...
Pàgina 160
... already ) ; but if there were a book with the title , Weeping : An Essay on the Meaning of the Tragic , then the collocation of physiological response and a category of human experience might reveal itself as more obviously problematic ...
... already ) ; but if there were a book with the title , Weeping : An Essay on the Meaning of the Tragic , then the collocation of physiological response and a category of human experience might reveal itself as more obviously problematic ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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