Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic CharacterRoutledge, 11.10.2013 г. - 168 страници First published in 1985. In 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'. His comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance. |
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... example as both scholar and teacher first encouraged this study of Shakespeare. His reading of my manuscript at various stages has been invaluable both for its patience with my early confusions and its faith in the ultimate text. I am ...
... example as both scholar and teacher first encouraged this study of Shakespeare. His reading of my manuscript at various stages has been invaluable both for its patience with my early confusions and its faith in the ultimate text. I am ...
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... example, Todorov describes characters in terms of 'predications'; Greimas, writing on medieval romance, calls them actants which participate in paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations.3 To show an interest in a complex character reveals ...
... example, Todorov describes characters in terms of 'predications'; Greimas, writing on medieval romance, calls them actants which participate in paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations.3 To show an interest in a complex character reveals ...
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... example, the experience we have of Rosalind as a complex character because Shakespeare uses strategies other than the soliloquy or monologue to create Rosalind's mental life; we miss Falstaff because his comic soliloquies are part of a ...
... example, the experience we have of Rosalind as a complex character because Shakespeare uses strategies other than the soliloquy or monologue to create Rosalind's mental life; we miss Falstaff because his comic soliloquies are part of a ...
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... example of the conflict between character and convention which has dogged criticism of the comedies. Even today commentators persist in rebuking Shakespeare for abandoning realistic characteriza— tion in order to bring about a ...
... example of the conflict between character and convention which has dogged criticism of the comedies. Even today commentators persist in rebuking Shakespeare for abandoning realistic characteriza— tion in order to bring about a ...
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... , defiance, hatred'.1 It is the process of those changes in his comic protagonists which we will be analyzing, using Measure for Measure as our example. Consider the following soliloquy from Measure for Measure which dramatizes.
... , defiance, hatred'.1 It is the process of those changes in his comic protagonists which we will be analyzing, using Measure for Measure as our example. Consider the following soliloquy from Measure for Measure which dramatizes.
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2 Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure | 20 |
3 Menander and New Comedy | 30 |
4 Plautus and Terence | 42 |
5 The enchantments of Circe | 57 |
Shakespeares early comedies | 77 |
As You Like It and Twelfth Night | 94 |
8 Mistaking in Much Ado | 109 |
9 Shakespeares rhetoric of consciousness | 121 |
Notes | 129 |
Index of plays discussed | 149 |
General index | 151 |
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