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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... - sive and inelastic . Yet as Bergson also admits , applying this theory to other , nontheatrical manifestations of the comic is not easy . He would not have been the influential and successful theorist he 22 SHAKESPEARE'S PRACTICAL JOKES.
... - sive and inelastic . Yet as Bergson also admits , applying this theory to other , nontheatrical manifestations of the comic is not easy . He would not have been the influential and successful theorist he 22 SHAKESPEARE'S PRACTICAL JOKES.
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... successful interpellation into particular positions within a gendered social order . " Although Howard re- gards both Beatrice and Benedick as “ social renegades " 1 who are made to conform , she is more concerned with the former . This ...
... successful interpellation into particular positions within a gendered social order . " Although Howard re- gards both Beatrice and Benedick as “ social renegades " 1 who are made to conform , she is more concerned with the former . This ...
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... successful gamblers experience when they make non- sense of their society's normal rules of exchange . Falstaff deserves to be shamed , but he lives outside or beyond the world of just deserts . What in effect Hal asks Falstaff to ...
... successful gamblers experience when they make non- sense of their society's normal rules of exchange . Falstaff deserves to be shamed , but he lives outside or beyond the world of just deserts . What in effect Hal asks Falstaff to ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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