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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... true that few responses create such a painful sense of division as " I don't think that's funny . " The comic may be only one of a whole battery of tastes , preferences , or opinions that both unite and divide human beings , but it ...
... true that few responses create such a painful sense of division as " I don't think that's funny . " The comic may be only one of a whole battery of tastes , preferences , or opinions that both unite and divide human beings , but it ...
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... true identity , Catella herself places the joke that has been played on her in Bibbiena's second category by attributing her downfall to her own naïveté and " exaggerated jealousy . " Whatever the different re- sponses it might evoke ...
... true identity , Catella herself places the joke that has been played on her in Bibbiena's second category by attributing her downfall to her own naïveté and " exaggerated jealousy . " Whatever the different re- sponses it might evoke ...
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... true of our approach to all other aspects of a literary text , matters must be a little more complicated than the simple use of this word suggests . In Jane Austen's Emma , the lively heroine , alarmed at the idea that her own Mr ...
... true of our approach to all other aspects of a literary text , matters must be a little more complicated than the simple use of this word suggests . In Jane Austen's Emma , the lively heroine , alarmed at the idea that her own Mr ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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