The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean ComedyAlexander Leggatt This introduction examines the continuity and variety of Shakepeare's work and the creative use he made of his inherited conventions. The first section places Shakespeare in the context of classical and Renaissance comedy, his Elizabethan predecessors and the traditions of popular festivity. The second section traces themes through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies, dark comedies and late romances, illuminating particular plays by close analysis, |
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... never look the same from one play to another . Shakespeare's comedies seem at times to speak to each other in a world of their own making , and some of the chap- ters trace their themes through a large number of plays , seeing each play ...
... never look the same from one play to another . Shakespeare's comedies seem at times to speak to each other in a world of their own making , and some of the chap- ters trace their themes through a large number of plays , seeing each play ...
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... never literally fulfilled . The shadow of the scapegoat hangs over many such characters - Shylock , the Falstaff of Merry Wives , Malvolio - but the archetypal fate of the scapegoat , expulsion from society , never occurs . Not once in ...
... never literally fulfilled . The shadow of the scapegoat hangs over many such characters - Shylock , the Falstaff of Merry Wives , Malvolio - but the archetypal fate of the scapegoat , expulsion from society , never occurs . Not once in ...
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... never wast at court , thou never saw'st good manners ; if thou never saw'st good manners , then thy manners must be wicked , and wickedness is sin , and sin is damnation . Thou art in a parlous state , shepherd . ( 38-43 ) But what ...
... never wast at court , thou never saw'st good manners ; if thou never saw'st good manners , then thy manners must be wicked , and wickedness is sin , and sin is damnation . Thou art in a parlous state , shepherd . ( 38-43 ) But what ...
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Roman comedy | 18 |
Italian stories on the stage | 32 |
JANETTE DILLON | 47 |
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