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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... write seriously about comedy can unfor- tunately give the impression that one has no sense of humour . While reading that chapter offers nothing to either confirm or cor- roborate the impression mentioned , it does suggest that here ...
... write seriously about comedy can unfor- tunately give the impression that one has no sense of humour . While reading that chapter offers nothing to either confirm or cor- roborate the impression mentioned , it does suggest that here ...
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... writes Keith Thomas , and he goes on to suggest ( in Bergsonian fashion ) how in close - knit com- munities of the ... write about Shakespeare , they have a tendency to assume that all laughter is naturally antiestablish- ment , and they ...
... writes Keith Thomas , and he goes on to suggest ( in Bergsonian fashion ) how in close - knit com- munities of the ... write about Shakespeare , they have a tendency to assume that all laughter is naturally antiestablish- ment , and they ...
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... writes , with explicit ref- erence to 2.3 , " The festive agon is fully played out in Twelfth Night , as Carnival misrule in the persons of Toby and his companions ... con- tends with Lent in the person of Malvolio . " It is the ...
... writes , with explicit ref- erence to 2.3 , " The festive agon is fully played out in Twelfth Night , as Carnival misrule in the persons of Toby and his companions ... con- tends with Lent in the person of Malvolio . " It is the ...
Continguts
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Female Victims and Female Jokers | 32 |
The Privileges of Rank | 58 |
Copyright | |
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