Comic transformations in Shakespeare / Ruth Nevo.

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Nevo, Ruth [author.]

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TextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013Edition: First issued in paperback 2013Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781136557057
1136557059
9780415352703
0415352703
9780415846660
0415846668
129999668X
9781299996687

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Comic transformations in Shakespeare.DDC classification:

822.3/3 23

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PR2981 .N48 2013eb

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Contents:

Shakespeare's new comedy -- 'My glass and not my brother' -- 'Kate of Kate Hall' -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- Navarre's world of words -- Fancy's images -- Jessica's monkey; or, the Goodwins -- The case of Falstaff and The merry wives -- 'Better than reportingly' -- Existence in Arden -- Nature's bias -- Comic remedies -- Appendix: scanning a Shakespeare play.

Summary: 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 compl.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Methuen, 1980.

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 compl.

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