Shakespeare’s comic theory
Author: Thomas Allen Nelson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-03-18
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 3111629724
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Acting Funny
Author: Frances N. Teague
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780838635247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finally, these assumptions lead to the corollary that such hierarchies are natural and immutable and not fashioned by critics.
The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy
Author: William C. Carroll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1400854814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the master trope of transformation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy
Author: Alexander Leggatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521779425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.
Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment
Author: Kent Cartwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 019263965X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society. Shakespeare's comedies orchestrate ongoing encounters between the rational and the mysterious, between doubt and fascination, with feelings moved by elements of enchantment that also seem a little ridiculous. In such a drama, lines of causality become complex, and even satisfying endings leave certain matters incomplete and contingent—openings for scrutiny and thought. In addressing enchantment, the book takes exception to the modernist vision of a deterministic 'disenchanted' world. As Shakespeare's action advances, comic mysteries accrue—uncanny coincidences; magical sympathies; inexplicable repetitions; psychic influences; and puzzlements about the meaning of events—all of whose numinous effects linger ambiguously after reason has apparently answered the play's questions. Separate chapters explore the devices, tropes, and motifs of enchantment: magical clowns who alter the action through stop-time interludes; structural repetitions that suggest mysteriously converging, even opaquely providential destinies; locales that oppose magical and protean forces to regulatory and quotidian values; desires, thoughts, and utterances that 'manifest' comically monstrous events; characters who return from the dead, facilitated by the desires of the living; play-endings crossed by harmony and dissonance, with moments of wonder that make possible the mysterious action of forgiveness. Wonder and wondering in Shakespeare's and other comedies, it emerges, become the conditions for new possibilities. Chapters refer extensively to early modern history, Renaissance and modern theories of comedy, treatises on magical science, and contemporaneous Italian and Tudor comedy.
Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths
Author: Camille Wells Slights
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780802029249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 on the culture in which they originated. Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths sheds new light on ten Shakespearean comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. In a diversity of comic forms - from rollicking farce to tragicomedy - these plays offer varying perspectives on the forces that make and mar human communities. Dramatizing tensions between savagery and civilization, autonomy and dependence, and isolation and community, Shakespeare's comedies both reflect and comment on the society that produces them. Slights eschews viewing these comedies as endorsements of the prevailing ideologies of sixteenth-century England or as subversions of that hierarchical, patriarchal culture. They can be most fruitfully understood as imaginative forms that present cultural practices, institutions and beliefs as human constructions susceptible to critical scrutiny. While exposing the injustice and brutality as well as the assurances and satisfactions of social experiences, Shakespeare's comedies represent people as inescapably social beings. By combining historical scholarship with formal analysis and incorporating insights from social anthropology and feminist theory, Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths offers new readings of Shakespeare's early comedies and analyses the interaction between the plays and the social structures and processes of early modern England.
Comic Transformations in Shakespeare
Author: Ruth Nevo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1136557121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Comic Transformations in Shakespeare
Author: Ruth Nevo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1136557059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Shakespearean Comedy
Shakespeare's Practical Jokes
Author: David Ellis
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780838756805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Female victims and female jokers -- The privileges of rank -- Falstaff -- The ideal victim -- How far can you go? -- The triumph over shame -- Practical jokes and evil practices.
