The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean ComedyAlexander Leggatt Cambridge University Press, 20/12/2001 - 256 páginas First published in 2001, this is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. The first section puts Shakespeare in the context of classical and Renaissance comedy and comic theory, the work of his Elizabethan predecessors and the traditions of popular festivity. The second section traces a number of themes through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies, dark comedies and late romances, establishing the key features of his comedy as a whole and illuminating particular plays by close analysis. Individual chapters draw on contemporary politics, rhetoric, and the history of Shakespeare production. Written by experts in the relevant fields, the chapters frequently challenge long-standing critical assumptions. |
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Alexander Leggatt. The. Cambridge. Companion. to. Shakespearean. Comedy. This is an accessible, wideranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace ...
Alexander Leggatt. The. Cambridge. Companion. to. Shakespearean. Comedy. This is an accessible, wideranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace ...
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Alexander Leggatt. NOTES. ON. CONTRIBUTORS. CATHERINE BATES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan ...
Alexander Leggatt. NOTES. ON. CONTRIBUTORS. CATHERINE BATES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan ...
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Alexander Leggatt. literature. JOHN CREASER is Hildred Carlile Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Executive Secretary of the Malone Society. He has published extensively on Renaissance literature ...
Alexander Leggatt. literature. JOHN CREASER is Hildred Carlile Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Executive Secretary of the Malone Society. He has published extensively on Renaissance literature ...
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Alexander Leggatt. PREFACE. In our world comedy is available on a daily basis, packaged and processed like bread and milk: the comic strip in the newspaper, the situation comedy on television. As with bread and milk, predictability is the ...
Alexander Leggatt. PREFACE. In our world comedy is available on a daily basis, packaged and processed like bread and milk: the comic strip in the newspaper, the situation comedy on television. As with bread and milk, predictability is the ...
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... and tragic protagonists which the classical tradition had put into place and which is parodiedinthe generic confusionofQuince's title, “The most lamentablecomedy, andmost cruel deathofPyramus andThisbe ... and the very age and body of the.
... and tragic protagonists which the classical tradition had put into place and which is parodiedinthe generic confusionofQuince's title, “The most lamentablecomedy, andmost cruel deathofPyramus andThisbe ... and the very age and body of the.
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Roman comedy | |
Italian stories on the stage | |
Elizabethan comedy | |
Forms of confusion | |
JOHN CREASER 7 Love andcourtship | |
Laughing at others | |
Comedy and | |
Language and comedy | |
Matters of state | |
ANTHONY MILLER 13 The experimentof romance | |
Select bibliography | |
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