Nevo Comic Transformations in Shakespeare

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-55712-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nevo, Ruth

Fachgebiete

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

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