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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... difficulties inherent in discussing in cold print any art form intended for performance , the comic in Shakespeare be- comes a possible subject . But its difficulty is not lessened by the rela- tive scarcity of theoretical writing on ...
... difficulties inherent in discussing in cold print any art form intended for performance , the comic in Shakespeare be- comes a possible subject . But its difficulty is not lessened by the rela- tive scarcity of theoretical writing on ...
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... difficulty of translating principle into practice . The extent of that difficulty means that there are likely to be mo- ments in what follows when I slip from one meaning of the comic to another and therefore lose a clear idea of what I ...
... difficulty of translating principle into practice . The extent of that difficulty means that there are likely to be mo- ments in what follows when I slip from one meaning of the comic to another and therefore lose a clear idea of what I ...
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... difficulty and at the same time demon- strate their moral and intellectual superiority . That is to say that , as so ... difficulties of trying to focus on these two moments of comedy from Wilde and Goldsmith is that not even their ...
... difficulty and at the same time demon- strate their moral and intellectual superiority . That is to say that , as so ... difficulties of trying to focus on these two moments of comedy from Wilde and Goldsmith is that not even their ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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