A Preface To Shakespeare S Comedies

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317895039

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This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 817808872X

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A Preface To Shakespeare's Comedies by Michael Mangan Pdf

Author : Penny Gay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139469770

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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies by Penny Gay Pdf

Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.

Author : Bart Van Es
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198723356

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Shakespeare's Comedies by Bart Van Es Pdf

In this work, Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare's comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard's verbal artistry and wit.

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317880769

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A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies by Michael Mangan Pdf

This book is a study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". It looks at these plays in a variety of contexts - both in isolation and in relation to each other and to the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts which produced them.

Author : Patrick Swinden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1976-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349017515

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An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies by Patrick Swinden Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Sir Israel Gollancz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015020691914

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Shakespeare's Comedy of As You Like it by William Shakespeare,Sir Israel Gollancz Pdf

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317895046

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A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies by Michael Mangan Pdf

This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.

Author : William Shakespeare,Sir Israel Gollancz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112073445097

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Shakespeare's Comedy of All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare,Sir Israel Gollancz Pdf

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521779421

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy by Alexander Leggatt Pdf

An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.

Author : William Shakespeare,Sir Israel Gollancz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112073445535

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Shakespeare's Comedy of the Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare,Sir Israel Gollancz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916158046

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An introduction to Shakespeare's comedies by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001933371

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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 134761267X

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Shakespeare's Comedy of as You Like It by William Shakespeare Pdf

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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540740161

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Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson Pdf

h ended happily to the principal persons, however serious or distressful through its intermediate incidents, in their opinion constituted a comedy. This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us, and plays were written, which, by changing the catastrophe, were tragedies to-day and comedies to-morrow. Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy; it required only a calamitous conclusion, with which the common criticism of that age was satisfied, whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress.