The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies
Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [etc.] :
Cambridge University Press
2008.
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| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to literature
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : comedy as idea and practice
- Farce : The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor
- Courtly lovers and the real world : Two gentlemen of Verona, A midsummer night's dream, The merchant of Venice
- Comedy and language : Love's labour's lost
- Romantic comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night
- Problematic plots and endings : clowning and comedy post-Hamlet : Measure for measure, All's well that ends well, The winter's tale, Cymbeline, The tempest
- The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies.
