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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... conventions he inherited.The first section puts Shakespeare in the context of classical andRenaissance comedy and comic theory,thework ofhis Elizabethan predecessors, and the traditions ofpopular festivity. Thesecond sectiontracesa ...
... conventions he inherited.The first section puts Shakespeare in the context of classical andRenaissance comedy and comic theory,thework ofhis Elizabethan predecessors, and the traditions ofpopular festivity. Thesecond sectiontracesa ...
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... conventions: for viewers ofthis editor's generation, the lunatic fantasies of MontyPython, thedeadparrot and the Ministry of Silly Walks, getting into their thirtiesnow, havebecome familiar old friends, ascomfortable asaworn ...
... conventions: for viewers ofthis editor's generation, the lunatic fantasies of MontyPython, thedeadparrot and the Ministry of Silly Walks, getting into their thirtiesnow, havebecome familiar old friends, ascomfortable asaworn ...
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... conventions like mistaken identity, rival wooers, and parents who oppose lovematches are handed down through the centuries; and aform attuned to the changing society around it, commenting on manners, dress, and language inawaythatas the ...
... conventions like mistaken identity, rival wooers, and parents who oppose lovematches are handed down through the centuries; and aform attuned to the changing society around it, commenting on manners, dress, and language inawaythatas the ...
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... conventions and preoccupations that appear in playafterplay but neverlookthesame from one play to another.Shakespeare's comedies seemat timestospeak toeachother in a worldoftheir own making,and some ofthe chapters trace their themes ...
... conventions and preoccupations that appear in playafterplay but neverlookthesame from one play to another.Shakespeare's comedies seemat timestospeak toeachother in a worldoftheir own making,and some ofthe chapters trace their themes ...
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... conventions of tradition, both theory and practice; they reflect and question each other;andthey constantly provokeustoquestion them. My first debt of gratitude is to the contributors, who have maximized the pleasures of editorship ...
... conventions of tradition, both theory and practice; they reflect and question each other;andthey constantly provokeustoquestion them. My first debt of gratitude is to the contributors, who have maximized the pleasures of editorship ...
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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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