Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character: Dramatic Convention in Classical and Renaissance ComedyIn this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem lifelike or realistic. |
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