Comic Transformations in Shakespeare

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-35270-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 453 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 Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Shakespeare’s New Comedy; Chapter 2 ‘My Glass and Not my Brother’; Chapter 3 ‘Kate of Kate Hall’; Chapter 4 The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Chapter 5 Navarre’s World of Words; Chapter 6 Fancy’s Images; Chapter 7 Jessica’s Monkey; or, the Goodwins; Chapter 8 The Case of Falstaff and the Merry Wives; Chapter 9 ‘Better than Reportingly’; Chapter 10 Existence in Arden; Chapter 11 Nature’s Bias; Chapter 12 Comic Remedies;

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Nevo