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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... situation . " " In his approving gloss on this definition , Critichley claims that " true " humor not only “ tells us something about who we are and the sort of place we live in " but also " perhaps indicates to us how it might be ...
... situation . " " In his approving gloss on this definition , Critichley claims that " true " humor not only “ tells us something about who we are and the sort of place we live in " but also " perhaps indicates to us how it might be ...
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... situation in Florence with the differ- ence between the jokes in The Decameron and those in Le cene ( Sup- pers ) of one of Boccaccio's sixteenth - century admirers , Anton- francesco Grazzini , whose pen name was Il Lasca ( The Roach ) ...
... situation in Florence with the differ- ence between the jokes in The Decameron and those in Le cene ( Sup- pers ) of one of Boccaccio's sixteenth - century admirers , Anton- francesco Grazzini , whose pen name was Il Lasca ( The Roach ) ...
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... situation with- out believing that — in this play - such a situation will ever arise . “ It is reported that he has taken their great'st commander , and that with his own hand he slew the duke's brother , " Diana's mother cheerfully ...
... situation with- out believing that — in this play - such a situation will ever arise . “ It is reported that he has taken their great'st commander , and that with his own hand he slew the duke's brother , " Diana's mother cheerfully ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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