Shakespeare S Comic Commonwealths
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Shakespeare S Comic Commonwealths
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Author : Camille Wells Slights
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Shakespeare S Comic Commonwealths written by Camille Wells Slights and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Challenging the traditional view that Shakespeare's early comedies are about the experience of romantic love and constitute a genre called romantic comedy, Camille Wells Slights demonstrates that they dramatize individual action in the context of social dynamics, reflecting and commenting on the culture in which they originated. Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths sheds new light on ten Shakespearean comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. In a diversity of comic forms - from rollicking farce to tragicomedy - these plays offer varying perspectives on the forces that make and mar human communities. Dramatizing tensions between savagery and civilization, autonomy and dependence, and isolation and community, Shakespeare's comedies both reflect and comment on the society that produces them. Slights eschews viewing these comedies as endorsements of the prevailing ideologies of sixteenth-century England or as subversions of that hierarchical, patriarchal culture. They can be most fruitfully understood as imaginative forms that present cultural practices, institutions and beliefs as human constructions susceptible to critical scrutiny. While exposing the injustice and brutality as well as the assurances and satisfactions of social experiences, Shakespeare's comedies represent people as inescapably social beings. By combining historical scholarship with formal analysis and incorporating insights from social anthropology and feminist theory, Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths offers new readings of Shakespeare's early comedies and analyses the interaction between the plays and the social structures and processes of early modern England.
Shakespeare S Comic Rites
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Author : Edward Berry
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1984-10-18
Shakespeare S Comic Rites written by Edward Berry and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-10-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Professor Berry combines social history, anthropology and literary criticism to Shakespeare's romantic comedies.
Comic Transformations In Shakespeare
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Author : Ruth Nevo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Comic Transformations In Shakespeare written by Ruth Nevo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1980. In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed; the Falstaff plays are seen as a watershed, and the emergence of new comic protagonists - the resourceful, anti-romantic romantic heroine and the Fool - as the summit of the achievement. The plays are explored from three complementary perspectives - theoretical, developmental and interpretative which lead to a further understanding of the powerful relation between the plays' formal complexity and their naturalistic verisimilitude.
Acting Funny
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Author : Frances N. Teague
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1994
Acting Funny written by Frances N. Teague and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Drama categories.
Finally, these assumptions lead to the corollary that such hierarchies are natural and immutable and not fashioned by critics.
Shakespeare The Uses Of Comedy
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Author : Joseph Allen Bryant
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 1986
Shakespeare The Uses Of Comedy written by Joseph Allen Bryant and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy. Once the reader recognizes that justification for such an assumption is presented repeatedly in the earlier comedies -- from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night -- he has less difficulty in dispensing with the currently fashionable classifications of the later comedies as problem plays and romances or tragicomedies and thus in seeing them all as manifestations of a single impulse. Bryant shows how Shakespeare, early a.
Political And Comic Characters Of Shakespeare
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Author : John L. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1962-12-01
Political And Comic Characters Of Shakespeare written by John L. Palmer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare S Rhetoric Of Comic Character
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Author : Karen Newman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Shakespeare S Rhetoric Of Comic Character written by Karen Newman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Shakespearean Comedy
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Author : Chintamani N. Desai
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Shakespearean Comedy written by Chintamani N. Desai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Comedy categories.
Shakespeare S Comic Sequence
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Author : Kenneth Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Shakespeare S Comic Sequence written by Kenneth Muir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beyond A Common Joy
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Author : Paul A. Olson
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Beyond A Common Joy written by Paul A. Olson and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
?Soul of the age!? Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, ?He was not of an age but for all time.? That he was both ?of the age? and ?for all time? is, this book suggests, the key to Shakespeare?s comic genius. In this engaging introduction to the First Folio comedies, Paul A. Olson gives a persuasive and thoroughly engrossing account of the playwright?s comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness?on par with epic and tragedy. Like the best tragic or epic writers, Shakespeare in his comedies goes beyond private and domestic matters in order to draw on the whole of the commonwealth. He examines how a ruler?s or a court?s community at the household and local levels shapes the politics of empire?existing or nascent empires such as England, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Venice, and the Ottoman Empire or part empires such as Rome and Athens?where all their suffering and silliness play into how they govern. In Olson?s work we also see how Shakespeare?s appropriation of his age?s ideas about classical myth and biblical scriptures bring to his comic action a sort of sacral profundity in keeping with notions of poetry as ?inspired? and comic endings as more than merely happy but as, in fact, uncommonly joyful.