An Introduction To Shakespeare S Comedies

Author : Penny Gay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Patrick Swinden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916158046

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An introduction to Shakespeare's comedies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bart Van Es
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307420596

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Four Comedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494398

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy by Alexander Leggatt Pdf

First published in 2001, this is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. The first section puts Shakespeare in the context of classical and Renaissance comedy and comic theory, the work of his Elizabethan predecessors and the traditions of popular festivity. The second section traces a number of themes through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies, dark comedies and late romances, establishing the key features of his comedy as a whole and illuminating particular plays by close analysis. Individual chapters draw on contemporary politics, rhetoric, and the history of Shakespeare production. Written by experts in the relevant fields, the chapters frequently challenge long-standing critical assumptions.

Author : Paul A. Olson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803215746

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Beyond a Common Joy by Paul A. Olson Pdf

?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.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001933371

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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Grant W. Smith
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648892707

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Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies by Grant W. Smith Pdf

'Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies' presents a comprehensive study of names in Shakespeare’s comedies. Although names are used in daily speech as simple designators, often with minimal regard for semantic or phonological suggestiveness, their coinage is always based on analogy. They are words (i.e., signs) borrowed from previous referents and contexts, and applied to new referents. Thus, in the literary use of language, names are figurative inventions and have measurable thematic significance: they evoke an association of attributes between two or more referents, contextualize each work of literature within its time, and reflect the artistic development of the writer. In the introduction, Smith describes the literary use of names as creative choices that show the indebtedness of authors to previous literature, as well as their imaginative descriptions (etymologically and phonologically) of memorable character types, and their references to cultural phenomena that make their names meaningful to their contemporary readers and audience. This book presents fourteen essays demonstrating the analytical models explained in the introduction. These essays focus on Shakespeare’s comedies as presented in the First Folio. They do not follow the chronological order of their composition; instead, the individual essays give special attention to differences between the plays that suggest Shakespeare’s artistic development, including the varied sources of his borrowings, the differences between his etymological and phonological coinages, the frequency and types of his topical references, and his use of epithets and generics. This book will appeal to Shakespeare students and scholars at all levels, particularly those who are keen on studying his comedies. This study will also be relevant for researchers and graduate students interested in onomastics. He can be reached at [email protected].

Author : Leo Salingar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521291135

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Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy by Leo Salingar Pdf

For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.

Author : Melissa Emerson Walter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781487503642

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The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines by Melissa Emerson Walter Pdf

This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1840221453

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The Great Comedies and Tragedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

The collection of the finest of Shakespeare's plays presents Shakespeare's comedies with introductions by Judith Buchanan and tragedies with introductions by Emma Smith

Author : Margreta De Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521886321

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The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by Margreta De Grazia,Stanley Wells Pdf

Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.

Author : H. H. Anniah Gowda
Publisher : Vantage Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0938719017

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Shakespeare's Comedies and Poems by H. H. Anniah Gowda Pdf

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.