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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... episode in a way that , while it might be intended to illumi- nate the comic , in fact distracts attention from it ... episodes that has generally been found most amusing occurs at the opening of act 2 . There the local squire ...
... episode in a way that , while it might be intended to illumi- nate the comic , in fact distracts attention from it ... episodes that has generally been found most amusing occurs at the opening of act 2 . There the local squire ...
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... episode with Williams's reply to Henry's challenge . Pointing out that “ all offences ... come from the heart " ( 4.8.46 ) , he first of all insists that he had no intention of insulting his king . When Henry replies not with argument ...
... episode with Williams's reply to Henry's challenge . Pointing out that “ all offences ... come from the heart " ( 4.8.46 ) , he first of all insists that he had no intention of insulting his king . When Henry replies not with argument ...
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... episode not some pu- tative and impossible - to - recover Elizabethan sense of humor , but how well it works in comparison to other , similar episodes in Shake- speare's plays ( the lord's treatment of Christopher Sly , for example ) ...
... episode not some pu- tative and impossible - to - recover Elizabethan sense of humor , but how well it works in comparison to other , similar episodes in Shake- speare's plays ( the lord's treatment of Christopher Sly , for example ) ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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