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Shakespeare And Comedy

By Robert Maslen

Shakespeare And Comedy Drama

Shakespeare And Comedy

By Robert Maslen

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
2005-09-30
Publication Date:
2005-09-26
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1904271448
ISBN13:
9781904271444
Weight:
303 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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