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Comic Transformations in Shakespeare

By Ruth Nevo

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2005
ISBN
9781136557057, 9780415352703
LCC
PR2981 -- .N48 2005eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
378 kB (387380 bytes)
Pages
251\0
Time added
2023-08-05 17:33:06
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Description

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.

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