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
... remark by W. H. Auden . It is at least his remark that , in his excellent introduction to the Oxford edition of 1 Henry IV , David Bevington echoes when he writes , " W. H. Auden puts it well : we were all Falstaffs once upon a time ...
... remark by W. H. Auden . It is at least his remark that , in his excellent introduction to the Oxford edition of 1 Henry IV , David Bevington echoes when he writes , " W. H. Auden puts it well : we were all Falstaffs once upon a time ...
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... remarks on Olivia's four letters as wholly ancillary to the main business of 2.5 . This begins when he opens the letter with its broad hints but also its other signals— “ M.O.A.I . ” for example , which are not quite in the order they ...
... remarks on Olivia's four letters as wholly ancillary to the main business of 2.5 . This begins when he opens the letter with its broad hints but also its other signals— “ M.O.A.I . ” for example , which are not quite in the order they ...
Pàgina 138
... remarks and events to their disadvantage , or at least the familiarity can be deduced from the fre- quency with which the word " paranoid ” is bandied about . The way people interpret similar remarks and events to their advantage is ...
... remarks and events to their disadvantage , or at least the familiarity can be deduced from the fre- quency with which the word " paranoid ” is bandied about . The way people interpret similar remarks and events to their advantage is ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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