E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Carroll The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5481-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5481-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Preface, pg. 3
Chapter One. Metamorphosis, pg. 7
Chapter Two. The Taming of the Shrew and Marriage, pg. 41
Chapter Three. To Be and Not to Be: The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night, pg. 63
Chapter Four. "Forget to Be a Woman", pg. 103
Chapter Five. A Midsummer Night's Dream.· Monsters and Marriage, pg. 141
Chapter Six. Falstaff and Ford: Forming and Reforming, pg. 178
Chapter Seven. The Changes of Romance, pg. 205
Appendix, pg. 245
Notes, pg. 255
Index, pg. 287
