Shakespeare And ComedyA&C Black, 20 de març 2014 - 288 pàgines Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a detailed study which considers tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is always calculatedly unsettling, and that this is part of what makes it pleasurable. |
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... Gosson's contemporaries as aninvitationtoa 'flyting':aliterary battleofwits designed as much to display the rhetorical skills of the disputants as to promote the cause theyespoused. A numberof people took up Gosson's challenge, among ...
... Gosson's contemporaries as aninvitationtoa 'flyting':aliterary battleofwits designed as much to display the rhetorical skills of the disputants as to promote the cause theyespoused. A numberof people took up Gosson's challenge, among ...
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... Gosson's attack: thatthe theatreisuseless, an oversophisticated luxury item fundamentally at odds with the English tradition of plainness andhonesty; and that itsuselessness makes it dangerous. Gosson stressesthepoint by referring ...
... Gosson's attack: thatthe theatreisuseless, an oversophisticated luxury item fundamentally at odds with the English tradition of plainness andhonesty; and that itsuselessness makes it dangerous. Gosson stressesthepoint by referring ...
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... Gosson citestheir performance asevidence against thetheatreas if ithadtaken placeonly yesterday.Forhim, comedyhasno history,because itis alwaysand everywhere thesame.It has never been reformed:it simply varies the techniquesby which it ...
... Gosson citestheir performance asevidence against thetheatreas if ithadtaken placeonly yesterday.Forhim, comedyhasno history,because itis alwaysand everywhere thesame.It has never been reformed:it simply varies the techniquesby which it ...
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... Gosson's premise is that the subtletiesofdrama, especially those ofcomedy, secretly operate toundermine all distinctions between thesocial classes,and that thismakes playing and playgoing the artisticequivalent ofpopular rebellion. Gosson ...
... Gosson's premise is that the subtletiesofdrama, especially those ofcomedy, secretly operate toundermine all distinctions between thesocial classes,and that thismakes playing and playgoing the artisticequivalent ofpopular rebellion. Gosson ...
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... Gosson explains this by means of afamiliar metaphor: 'A commonwealeis likenedtothe body, whose headeisthe prince', hewrites: if any partbe idle, by participation the damage redoundeth to the whole, if any refuse to doe their duetie ...
... Gosson explains this by means of afamiliar metaphor: 'A commonwealeis likenedtothe body, whose headeisthe prince', hewrites: if any partbe idle, by participation the damage redoundeth to the whole, if any refuse to doe their duetie ...
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