Shakespeare And ComedyBloomsbury Academic, 26/09/2005 - 288 páginas Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. In a detailed study of seventeen plays, tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is always calculatedly unsettling, and that this is part of what makes it pleasurable. |
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... sexual development has been artificially arrested by castration , a suitable servant for a man in a state of terminal sexual frustration . But Orsino's and Malvolio's descriptions of Cesario indicate their recognition that he is no ...
... sexual development has been artificially arrested by castration , a suitable servant for a man in a state of terminal sexual frustration . But Orsino's and Malvolio's descriptions of Cesario indicate their recognition that he is no ...
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... sexual object whose efforts to debate concepts of right and wrong serve only to heighten his pas- sion . And the ... sexually inviolate . So too , oddly enough , do the Duke's efforts in the following scene to persuade Claudio to ...
... sexual object whose efforts to debate concepts of right and wrong serve only to heighten his pas- sion . And the ... sexually inviolate . So too , oddly enough , do the Duke's efforts in the following scene to persuade Claudio to ...
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... sexual crimes they wish to extirpate . - On his first entry , Pompey announces the authorities ' intention to tear down all the brothels in the suburbs of Vienna ; but in the same breath he points out that they have left the inner ...
... sexual crimes they wish to extirpate . - On his first entry , Pompey announces the authorities ' intention to tear down all the brothels in the suburbs of Vienna ; but in the same breath he points out that they have left the inner ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter Three | 125 |
AFTERWORD | 211 |
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Shakespeare's Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in His Work David Ellis Visualização de excertos - 2007 |