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 62
... claim that it was he who had arranged for devils to carry the doctor off to an enchanted place while leaving a ... claims to be exorcising any evil spirit still lurking in him — an episode that causes Burchiello and his friends to ...
... claim that it was he who had arranged for devils to carry the doctor off to an enchanted place while leaving a ... claims to be exorcising any evil spirit still lurking in him — an episode that causes Burchiello and his friends to ...
Pàgina 182
... claim that the play offers a comprehensive view of sexuality ( even if there are features of Helena's love that are ... claiming that Diana is a prostitute in order to evade his responsibili- ties . Exposed , both Parolles and Bertram ...
... claim that the play offers a comprehensive view of sexuality ( even if there are features of Helena's love that are ... claiming that Diana is a prostitute in order to evade his responsibili- ties . Exposed , both Parolles and Bertram ...
Pàgina 199
... claim that her now weeping animal is her own daughter , de- prived of her human shape because she failed to respond ... claims that " it would have been difficult in late me- dieval and early modern Europe not to have known the story of ...
... claim that her now weeping animal is her own daughter , de- prived of her human shape because she failed to respond ... claims that " it would have been difficult in late me- dieval and early modern Europe not to have known the story of ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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