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 38
... story is now being told as one more comic illustration of how eccentricity was exposed and reformed . As Much Ado About Noth- ing illustrates better than any other of Shakespeare's plays , one method social groups have for bringing ...
... story is now being told as one more comic illustration of how eccentricity was exposed and reformed . As Much Ado About Noth- ing illustrates better than any other of Shakespeare's plays , one method social groups have for bringing ...
Pàgina 63
... story is that Manente never learns what happened to him . Practical jokes are never what they should be unless at some point the jokers reveal themselves to the victim . Lasca describes how " in the course of time " not only Burchiello ...
... story is that Manente never learns what happened to him . Practical jokes are never what they should be unless at some point the jokers reveal themselves to the victim . Lasca describes how " in the course of time " not only Burchiello ...
Pàgina 64
... story is a psy- chological landscape that is , to say the least , unsentimental . When he is released back into the world , Manente is hardly a candidate for post - traumatic stress therapy . Rather than brooding unduly over his ...
... story is a psy- chological landscape that is , to say the least , unsentimental . When he is released back into the world , Manente is hardly a candidate for post - traumatic stress therapy . Rather than brooding unduly over his ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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