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Informationen zum Autor Richard Hillman is Professor Emeritus in Renaissance Literature at the Université de Tours, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France Klappentext Richard Hillman's latest book on the French connections of early modern English drama shows that Shakespeare regularly inflected the models provided by Italian comedy and tragicomedy by evoking French material, dramatic and non-dramatic. Such inflection especially bears on the tragic overtones that menace or complicate comic resolutions. Zusammenfassung Richard Hillman’s latest book on the French connections of early modern English drama shows that Shakespeare regularly inflected the models provided by Italian comedy and tragicomedy by evoking French material, dramatic and non-dramatic. Such inflection especially bears on the tragic overtones that menace or complicate comic resolutions. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsTextual notes1 Theory, practice and genre: making room for France2 Dreaming in French3 French settings found and lost: Love's Labour's Lost and As You Like It 4 Late comedies tragically inflected: The Merchant of Venice , Measure for Measure , Twelfth Night 5 Tragicomedy - and beyond?: the view through French spectaclesWorks citedIndex
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Richard Hillman is Professor of English at the Université François-Rabelais de Tours
