Shakespeare And Comedy
1st Edition
Published on 20. March 2014
288 pages
978-1-4081-4364-3 (ISBN)
Description
Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a detailed study which considers tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is always calculatedly unsettling, and that this is part of what makes it pleasurable.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-4364-3 (9781408143643)
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Robert Maslen
Shakespeare And Comedy
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Dr. Robert Maslen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow where he specialises in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, especially prose, and twentieth-century fantastic fiction. He has published two monographs, Elizabethan Fictions (1997) and Shakespeare and Comedy (Arden, 2005).
Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- TEXTUAL NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Introduction
- Chapter One Comic Manifestos
- Chapter Two Comic Conversation and Rough Justice
- Chapter Three Lightness, Love and Death
- Chapter Four The Plural Bodies of Shakespeare's Boys
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
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