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Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths /
"Challenging the traditional view that Shakespeare's early comedies are about the experience of romantic love and constitute a genre called romantic comedy, Camille Wells Slights demonstrates that they dramatize individual action in the context of social dynamics, reflecting and commenting...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Belonging. Egeon's friends and relations : The comedy of errors ; The raw and the cooked in The taming of the shrew
- pt. II. Cultural values and the values of culture. Common courtesy in The two gentlemen of Verona ; Learning and language in Love's labor's lost
- pt. III. Change and continuity. The changes and chances of mortal life in A midsummer night's dream ; Deserving and diversity in The merchant of Venice
- pt. IV. Court and country. Pastoral and parody in The merry wives of Windsor ; The unauthorized language of Much ado about nothing
- pt. V. Renewal and reciprocity. Changing places in Arden : As you like it ; The principle of recompense in Twelfth night.