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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... wants to instruct his servants in the arts of waiting on tables even though they usually spend their time in the barn or at the plough . As he points out , it is partly a question of how to stand . He commends the posture of Dig- gory ...
... wants to instruct his servants in the arts of waiting on tables even though they usually spend their time in the barn or at the plough . As he points out , it is partly a question of how to stand . He commends the posture of Dig- gory ...
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... wants to buy them . He tells the peasant he will have to ac- company him home to be paid for the birds , which are to be the stake in a bet he has with a friend that a certain local bell tower is at least forty feet in circumference ...
... wants to buy them . He tells the peasant he will have to ac- company him home to be paid for the birds , which are to be the stake in a bet he has with a friend that a certain local bell tower is at least forty feet in circumference ...
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... wants to warn his read- ers against a " very English , and post - Romantic attitude to dogs " and feels therefore that Crab's " outbreak of feral behaviour upon com- ing into Silvia's presence . . . deserves serious attention . " That ...
... wants to warn his read- ers against a " very English , and post - Romantic attitude to dogs " and feels therefore that Crab's " outbreak of feral behaviour upon com- ing into Silvia's presence . . . deserves serious attention . " That ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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