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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... ofthe Renaissance Society of America, she has been Director of the University of California's Centro Studi at Paduaand theHarvard Renaissance Centerat VillaITatti, Florence, andisa member ofthe Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ...
... ofthe Renaissance Society of America, she has been Director of the University of California's Centro Studi at Paduaand theHarvard Renaissance Centerat VillaITatti, Florence, andisa member ofthe Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ...
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... ofthe presenceof the outlines ofa theory of the genre in The Poetics itself. Any discussion of theories of comedy in the Renaissance will inevitably emphasize the importanceofthese resources insixteenthcentury discussions of the issue ...
... ofthe presenceof the outlines ofa theory of the genre in The Poetics itself. Any discussion of theories of comedy in the Renaissance will inevitably emphasize the importanceofthese resources insixteenthcentury discussions of the issue ...
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... of the genrewere not firmlyin place. Even if comedy has sometimes seemedtolack its theorists, it has hardly ever lackedits critics. In 1579, one ofthe latter,the reformed playwright and aspiring divine,Stephen Gosson, published The ...
... of the genrewere not firmlyin place. Even if comedy has sometimes seemedtolack its theorists, it has hardly ever lackedits critics. In 1579, one ofthe latter,the reformed playwright and aspiring divine,Stephen Gosson, published The ...
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... ofthe phenomena,often emphasizing in the case of laughter the role of contractions ofthe diaphragm. But in the Galenic tradition, the predisposition to laugh stemmed from an imbalance of the humors, the four elements whose combination ...
... ofthe phenomena,often emphasizing in the case of laughter the role of contractions ofthe diaphragm. But in the Galenic tradition, the predisposition to laugh stemmed from an imbalance of the humors, the four elements whose combination ...
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... ofthe implicationsofhis claim.InBook iv ofhis Nichomachean Ethics, for example,he warns of the dangers of an excess oflaughter, and of the importance of a“middle state” in dealing withthehumorous, one which avoids theexcesses of “vulgar ...
... ofthe implicationsofhis claim.InBook iv ofhis Nichomachean Ethics, for example,he warns of the dangers of an excess oflaughter, and of the importance of a“middle state” in dealing withthehumorous, one which avoids theexcesses of “vulgar ...
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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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