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 22
... nature ( the form they have ) imposes conditions on their representation . By ignoring these conditions , those respon- sible for Shakespeare in Love lost most of what is comic in Launce , through ignorance perhaps , or more probably ...
... nature ( the form they have ) imposes conditions on their representation . By ignoring these conditions , those respon- sible for Shakespeare in Love lost most of what is comic in Launce , through ignorance perhaps , or more probably ...
Pàgina 158
... nature of Twelfth Night and to ignore all that is implied by Fabian's explanation and apology , Olivia's sympathetic support , and Orsino's instructions that he should be mollified . More importantly in this context , it is to suggest ...
... nature of Twelfth Night and to ignore all that is implied by Fabian's explanation and apology , Olivia's sympathetic support , and Orsino's instructions that he should be mollified . More importantly in this context , it is to suggest ...
Pàgina 191
... nature ; but one of the minor problems of laughter is that it dramatizes how uncom- mon that nature can be . Two people sitting side by side at the theater who both declare that they are " enjoying the play ” may have radically ...
... nature ; but one of the minor problems of laughter is that it dramatizes how uncom- mon that nature can be . Two people sitting side by side at the theater who both declare that they are " enjoying the play ” may have radically ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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