The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's ComediesCambridge University Press, 2008 M04 7 - 153 páginas 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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Penny Gay. Penny Gay The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies Why did theatre audiences. Front Cover.
Penny Gay. Penny Gay The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies Why did theatre audiences. Front Cover.
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Penny Gay. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day and why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his ...
Penny Gay. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day and why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his ...
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... Theatre Janette Dillon The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies Penny Gay The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies Jane Goldman The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf Kevin J.Hayes The Cambridge ...
... Theatre Janette Dillon The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies Penny Gay The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies Jane Goldman The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf Kevin J.Hayes The Cambridge ...
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... theatre-goers, and actors find their bearings and increase their enjoyment of plays which – as Duke Theseus says – 'need no excuse'. Quotations from Shakespeare's plays are from the individual editions of the New Cambridge Shakespeare ...
... theatre-goers, and actors find their bearings and increase their enjoyment of plays which – as Duke Theseus says – 'need no excuse'. Quotations from Shakespeare's plays are from the individual editions of the New Cambridge Shakespeare ...
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... theatre's potential to stir feeling, to convince the audience that what is happening on stage is 'real'; so various prologues, explanations, and interruptions are scripted into the play to reassure the audience. Each of the actors takes ...
... theatre's potential to stir feeling, to convince the audience that what is happening on stage is 'real'; so various prologues, explanations, and interruptions are scripted into the play to reassure the audience. Each of the actors takes ...
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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 |
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