Shakespearean Comedy

Klappentext An accessible! wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies! dark comedies and romances. Zusammenfassung This is an accessible! wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances! first published in 2001. Rather than taking each play in isolation! the chapters trace recurring issues through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies! dark comedies and late romances! suggesting the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Chronology; Part I. Shakespeare and Comic Tradition: 1. Theories of comedy David Galbraith; 2. Roman comedy Robert S. Miola; 3. Italian stories on the stage Louis George Clubb; 4. Elizabethan comedy Janette Dillon; 5. Popular festivity François Laroque; Part II. Shakespearean Comedy: 6. Forms of confusion John Creaser; 7. Love and courtship Catherine Bates; 8. Laughing at 'others' Edward Berry; 9. Comedy and sex Alexander Leggatt; 10. Language and comedy Lynne Magnusson; 11. Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender Barbara Hodgdon; 12. Matters of state Anthony Miller; 13. The experiment of romance Michael O'Connell; Select bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alexander Leggatt
• Mitarbeit: Alexander Leggatt (Herausgeber), Alexander (University of Toronto) Leggatt (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.12.2001
• EAN: 9780521779425
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77942-5
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Print On Demand; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Print on Demand
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Schule und Lernen