Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy. (1. Publ.)
Author | : Leo Salingar |
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Comedy |
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Author | : Leo Salingar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Comedy |
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Author | : Leo Salingar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Leo Salingar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521291132 |
For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.
Author | : LEO. SALINGER |
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Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Alexander Leggatt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521779425 |
An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.
Author | : Cesar Lombardi Barber |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0691149526 |
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 | : Leo Salingar |
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Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Melissa Emerson Walter |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1487503644 |
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 | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2006-09-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141959487 |
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.
Author | : Kent Cartwright |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019263965X |
Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society. Shakespeare's comedies orchestrate ongoing encounters between the rational and the mysterious, between doubt and fascination, with feelings moved by elements of enchantment that also seem a little ridiculous. In such a drama, lines of causality become complex, and even satisfying endings leave certain matters incomplete and contingent—openings for scrutiny and thought. In addressing enchantment, the book takes exception to the modernist vision of a deterministic 'disenchanted' world. As Shakespeare's action advances, comic mysteries accrue—uncanny coincidences; magical sympathies; inexplicable repetitions; psychic influences; and puzzlements about the meaning of events—all of whose numinous effects linger ambiguously after reason has apparently answered the play's questions. Separate chapters explore the devices, tropes, and motifs of enchantment: magical clowns who alter the action through stop-time interludes; structural repetitions that suggest mysteriously converging, even opaquely providential destinies; locales that oppose magical and protean forces to regulatory and quotidian values; desires, thoughts, and utterances that 'manifest' comically monstrous events; characters who return from the dead, facilitated by the desires of the living; play-endings crossed by harmony and dissonance, with moments of wonder that make possible the mysterious action of forgiveness. Wonder and wondering in Shakespeare's and other comedies, it emerges, become the conditions for new possibilities. Chapters refer extensively to early modern history, Renaissance and modern theories of comedy, treatises on magical science, and contemporaneous Italian and Tudor comedy.