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Author | : Alexander Leggatt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136556567 |
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First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially similar ingredients, so that, for example, the boy/girl changes in The Merchant of Venice are seen to have a quite different significance from those in As You Like It.
Author | : Richard Paul Knowles |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0802039537 |
Download Shakespeare's Comedies of Love Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to Alexander Leggatt, a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Download The Comedy of Errors Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard A. Levin |
Publisher | : Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Download Love and Society in Shakespearean Comedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is about three of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night. The author discusses them as expressions of a single theory of comedy -- that is, that every element of these plays contributes to an anti-romantic interpretation -- and he interprets them only in light of this anti-romantic theory.
Author | : Cesar Lombardi Barber |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0691149526 |
Download Shakespeare's Festive Comedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. "I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture."--C. L. Barber, in the Introduction This new edition includes a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt, who discusses Barber's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that Barber has inspired, showing that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Northrop Frye |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780231082716 |
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Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of the People's Republic of China, home of one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter G. Phialas |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0807836974 |
Download Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Phialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare's romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters, and makes illuminating comparisons and contrasts of character with character. The chief concern of the book is with the action of each play, the nature and relationship of its parts, and the meaning that the action dramatizes. Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author | : Anthony J. Lewis |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0813184827 |
Download The Love Story in Shakespearean Comedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this fascinating study, Anthony J. Lewis argues that it is the hero himself, rejecting a woman he apprehends as a threat, who is love's own worst enemy. Drawing upon classical and Renaissance drama, iconography, and a wide range of traditional and feminist criticism, Lewis demonstrates that in Shakespeare the actions and reactions of hero and heroine are contingent upon social setting—father-son relations, patriarchal restrictions on women, and cultural assumptions about gender-appropriate behavior. This compelling analysis shows how Shakespeare deepened the familiar love stores he inherited from New Comedy and Greek romance. Beginning with a penetrating analysis of the hero's contradictory response to sexual attraction, Lewis's discussion traces the heroine's reaction to abandonment and slander, and the lover's subsequent parallel descents into versions of bastardy and death. In arguing that comedy's happy ending is the product of the gender role reversals brought on by their evolving relationship itself, Lewis shows in meticulous detail how sexual stereotypes influence attitudes and restrict behavior. This perceptive discussion of male response to family and of female response to rejection will appeal to Shakespeare scholars and students, as well as to the theater community. Lewis's persuasive argument, that Shakespeare's heroes and heroines are, from the first, three-dimensional figures far removed from the stock types of Plautus, Terence, and his continental sources, will prove a valuable contribution to the ongoing feminist reappraisal of Shakespeare.