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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... person " who needs to be apprehended ( 4.7.153–56 ) . The improbability of any such person still wandering round the English camp after Agincourt does not prevent Fluellen from believing this tall story . With his pedantic concern for ...
... person " who needs to be apprehended ( 4.7.153–56 ) . The improbability of any such person still wandering round the English camp after Agincourt does not prevent Fluellen from believing this tall story . With his pedantic concern for ...
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... person Lysander sees on waking that he abandons Hermia for her . The greatest work in Western culture wholly orga- nized around a practical joke is Mozart and Da Ponte's Così fan tutte . There Don Alfonso and the two lovers have to work ...
... person Lysander sees on waking that he abandons Hermia for her . The greatest work in Western culture wholly orga- nized around a practical joke is Mozart and Da Ponte's Così fan tutte . There Don Alfonso and the two lovers have to work ...
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... person who whistles in the dark to make himself more relaxed , we use a behavior to alter our feelings . " Hys- terical laughter he explains by saying , " By reacting with laughter the hysterical person is rejecting the reality of the ...
... person who whistles in the dark to make himself more relaxed , we use a behavior to alter our feelings . " Hys- terical laughter he explains by saying , " By reacting with laughter the hysterical person is rejecting the reality of the ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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