Comic Transformations in ShakespeareRoutledge, 2013 M10 11 - 256 páginas First published in 1980. In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed; the Falstaff plays are seen as a watershed, and the emergence of new comic protagonists - the resourceful, anti-romantic romantic heroine and the Fool - as the summit of the achievement. The plays are explored from three complementary perspectives - theoretical, developmental and interpretative which lead to a further understanding of the powerful relation between the plays' formal complexity and their naturalistic verisimilitude. |
Contenido
1 | |
II My glass and not
my brother | 22 |
III Kate of Kate Hall
| 37 |
IV The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 53 |
V Navarres world of words | 69 |
VI Fancys images
| 96 |
VII Jessicas monkey or The Goodwins | 115 |
VIII The case of Falstaff and the Merry Wives | 142 |
IX Better than reportingly
| 162 |
X Existence in Arden | 180 |
XI Natures bias
| 200 |
XII Comic remedies
| 216 |
Scanning a Shakespeare play | 228 |
Selective bibliographical
note | 233 |
237 | |
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