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 114
... says the wrong thing when he first enters but Maria's fruitless protests have already shown how hard it would be for anyone in these circumstances to say the right , and how difficult the task is which he has to perform . My masters ...
... says the wrong thing when he first enters but Maria's fruitless protests have already shown how hard it would be for anyone in these circumstances to say the right , and how difficult the task is which he has to perform . My masters ...
Pàgina 172
... say , " Nay , by your leave , hold your hands- though I know his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls " ( lines 186-87 ) . But after the second , with its reflections on his drunken- ness , the first lord says , " I begin to ...
... say , " Nay , by your leave , hold your hands- though I know his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls " ( lines 186-87 ) . But after the second , with its reflections on his drunken- ness , the first lord says , " I begin to ...
Pàgina 189
... says , " [ C ] omedy is as much a tonal quality as a structural one . " One of the most striking remarks in Twelfth Night is Sir Toby's suggestion that Malvolio should go rub his chain with crumbs ( 2.3.117 ) . After the Duchess of ...
... says , " [ C ] omedy is as much a tonal quality as a structural one . " One of the most striking remarks in Twelfth Night is Sir Toby's suggestion that Malvolio should go rub his chain with crumbs ( 2.3.117 ) . After the Duchess of ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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