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 41
... especially , any man who showed little interest in women and was disinclined to marry risked being thought of as a " latent homosexual " ( if not a se- cret child molester ) . This approach to Much Ado About Nothing might seem absurd ...
... especially , any man who showed little interest in women and was disinclined to marry risked being thought of as a " latent homosexual " ( if not a se- cret child molester ) . This approach to Much Ado About Nothing might seem absurd ...
Pàgina 116
... especially per- sonal , and we are discouraged from thinking of them as especially so- cial , the best explanation one is left with is 116 SHAKESPEARE'S PRACTICAL JOKES.
... especially per- sonal , and we are discouraged from thinking of them as especially so- cial , the best explanation one is left with is 116 SHAKESPEARE'S PRACTICAL JOKES.
Pàgina 193
... especially when , with twenty - one already gone ( 1.1.198 ) , it leads to his killing one of his few remaining sons ; and in his refusal of Tamora's pleas to save her own son from sacrifice , there is an equally rigid adherence to ...
... especially when , with twenty - one already gone ( 1.1.198 ) , it leads to his killing one of his few remaining sons ; and in his refusal of Tamora's pleas to save her own son from sacrifice , there is an equally rigid adherence to ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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