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 92
... comes " ( 2.4.27-28 ) confirms its status as a warm - up act in theatrical terms , whatever its other significance . It is a method for making an audience anticipate more keenly Falstaff's response to the loss of the money and his ...
... comes " ( 2.4.27-28 ) confirms its status as a warm - up act in theatrical terms , whatever its other significance . It is a method for making an audience anticipate more keenly Falstaff's response to the loss of the money and his ...
Pàgina 143
... comes the trout that must be caught with tick- ling " ; and when he is on the point of picking it up , Fabian remarks , " Now is the woodcock near the gin " ( 2.5.21–22,82 ) . While he is labo- riously puzzling over its meaning , his ...
... comes the trout that must be caught with tick- ling " ; and when he is on the point of picking it up , Fabian remarks , " Now is the woodcock near the gin " ( 2.5.21–22,82 ) . While he is labo- riously puzzling over its meaning , his ...
Pàgina 187
... comes from the fact that Iago , like Richard III or Edmund in King Lear , is partly a comic figure . There is a sardonic wit in all three of these villains , a distinctly comic verve , and most members of an audience are likely to take ...
... comes from the fact that Iago , like Richard III or Edmund in King Lear , is partly a comic figure . There is a sardonic wit in all three of these villains , a distinctly comic verve , and most members of an audience are likely to take ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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