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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... human psychology (the difficulties of conversation between shy people), fromthe larger idiociesof society (the cult of celebrityin which thevictim is raised todivinity, thenkilled and eaten)and familiar character types (theimpossible ...
... human psychology (the difficulties of conversation between shy people), fromthe larger idiociesof society (the cult of celebrityin which thevictim is raised todivinity, thenkilled and eaten)and familiar character types (theimpossible ...
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... fourthcenturyad. doctor, combined etymology and humoralpsychology in hisaccount of laughter in thetreatise On Human Nature:“Laughter iscalledgelos by the Greeks, and gelos comes from hele, which means heat. For those who are.
... fourthcenturyad. doctor, combined etymology and humoralpsychology in hisaccount of laughter in thetreatise On Human Nature:“Laughter iscalledgelos by the Greeks, and gelos comes from hele, which means heat. For those who are.
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... humanity. Many viewed laughter andthe comic aspotentially dangerous. The early Church father Lactantius responded toAristotle that “the chief good inmanis religion only,” noting thatother animals also “haveakind of smile.”9 Moreover ...
... humanity. Many viewed laughter andthe comic aspotentially dangerous. The early Church father Lactantius responded toAristotle that “the chief good inmanis religion only,” noting thatother animals also “haveakind of smile.”9 Moreover ...
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... human actions, which always havein them something troublesome or distressing. (“Of Comedy,” 232) Robortello's treatment of comic character combines Aristotelian concepts with elements of the earlier tradition. “Four things,” he argues ...
... human actions, which always havein them something troublesome or distressing. (“Of Comedy,” 232) Robortello's treatment of comic character combines Aristotelian concepts with elements of the earlier tradition. “Four things,” he argues ...
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Índice
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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