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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... immediately on to note that this low status per- sists , " despite the contributions of philosophers and literary general- ists from Bergson to Northrop Frye . " Since these two writers were concerned with quite different subjects , the ...
... immediately on to note that this low status per- sists , " despite the contributions of philosophers and literary general- ists from Bergson to Northrop Frye . " Since these two writers were concerned with quite different subjects , the ...
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... immediately obvious is where best to direct the view . One possible starting point would be the development of the clown figure from the early days of Will Kemp and the radical change that came about in the roles Shakespeare wrote for ...
... immediately obvious is where best to direct the view . One possible starting point would be the development of the clown figure from the early days of Will Kemp and the radical change that came about in the roles Shakespeare wrote for ...
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... immediately interesting feature of The Sting here is the way its writers took care to divide the action into distinct phases . Each of these is introduced by one of those dialogue or title boards from the silent movies , displayed on ...
... immediately interesting feature of The Sting here is the way its writers took care to divide the action into distinct phases . Each of these is introduced by one of those dialogue or title boards from the silent movies , displayed on ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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