Comic Transformations in Shakespeare

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-84666-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nevo, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Shakespeare's New Comedy 2. 'My glass and not my brother' 3. 'Kate of Kate Hall' 4. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 5. Navarre's world of words 6. Fancy's images 7. Jessica's monkey; or, The Goodwins 8. The case of Falstaff and the Merry Wives 9. 'Better than reportingly' 10. Existence in Arden 11. Nature's bias 12. Comic remedies 13. Appendix: Scanning a Shakespeare play

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Nevo