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 89
... once elo- quently put it . On one or two occasions this involves nothing more complicated than changing the subject , but on another it is a ques- tion of the seductive transformation of thieves who steal by night into " Diana's ...
... once elo- quently put it . On one or two occasions this involves nothing more complicated than changing the subject , but on another it is a ques- tion of the seductive transformation of thieves who steal by night into " Diana's ...
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... ONCE OBSERVED , “ HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY unpropitious to definers . " 1 There is a danger that what has been and remains true of comedy in general may also prove true for anyone at- tempting to understand it better through detailed ...
... ONCE OBSERVED , “ HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY unpropitious to definers . " 1 There is a danger that what has been and remains true of comedy in general may also prove true for anyone at- tempting to understand it better through detailed ...
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... once described this deception as a " grisly practical joke , " and , a little like Richard III , Aaron himself certainly finds its success amusing . This is how he recalls , for the benefit of Titus's son Lucius , the fun with which the ...
... once described this deception as a " grisly practical joke , " and , a little like Richard III , Aaron himself certainly finds its success amusing . This is how he recalls , for the benefit of Titus's son Lucius , the fun with which the ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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