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Shakespeare and comedy /
Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2005.
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| Colección: | Arden critical companions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a detailed study which considers tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is always calculatedly unsettling, and that this is part of what ma. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781408143643 140814364X 1408143658 9781408143650 1472555104 9781472555106 |