The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's ComediesCambridge University Press, 2008/04/07 - 153 ページ Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre. |
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... stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the ...
... stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the ...
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... Story in English C. L. Innes The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures M. Jimmie Killingsworth The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman Pericles Lewis The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism Ronan McDonald The Cambridge ...
... Story in English C. L. Innes The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures M. Jimmie Killingsworth The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman Pericles Lewis The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism Ronan McDonald The Cambridge ...
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... story-telling that has a long and ancient history. Whatever happens along the way in a dramatic comedy, the ending will offer an image of happiness – for at least some of the characters whose fortunes we have followed. If for others ...
... story-telling that has a long and ancient history. Whatever happens along the way in a dramatic comedy, the ending will offer an image of happiness – for at least some of the characters whose fortunes we have followed. If for others ...
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... story told with maximum effect. In fact, he and his companions are a little 'afeared' of theatre's potential to stir feeling, to convince the audience that what is happening on stage is 'real'; so various prologues, explanations, and ...
... story told with maximum effect. In fact, he and his companions are a little 'afeared' of theatre's potential to stir feeling, to convince the audience that what is happening on stage is 'real'; so various prologues, explanations, and ...
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... stories of the teeming underlife of the city. 'Mongrel' theatre (as Sir Philip Sidney called it – see below), or hybrid forms, would seem to suit the very temper of the times. Ingeneral, therewasalreadyastrongtraditionof'miscellaneity ...
... stories of the teeming underlife of the city. 'Mongrel' theatre (as Sir Philip Sidney called it – see below), or hybrid forms, would seem to suit the very temper of the times. Ingeneral, therewasalreadyastrongtraditionof'miscellaneity ...
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2 Farce | 16 |
3 Courtly lovers and the real world | 35 |
4 Comedy and language | 58 |
5 Romantic comedy | 71 |
6 Problematic plots and endings | 103 |
7 Afterlives | 124 |
Conclusion | 138 |
Further reading | 141 |
Notes | 143 |
Index | 151 |
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