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Shakespeare and comedy

Rather than focusing on the plays most commonly classified as comedies, Robert Maslen traces Shakespeare's use of comedy throughout all his plays by demonstrating the use of the comic mode when representing commoners and court entertainers, or as a medium exploited by pranksters, dissidents and rebels
eBook, English, 2005
Arden Shakespeare, London, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : illustrations
9781408143643, 140814364X
607739557
Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Contents
Textual Note
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One Comic Manifestos
Chapter Two Comic Conversation and Rough Justice
Chapter Three Lightness, Love and Death
Chapter Four The Plural Bodies of Shakespeare's Boys
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Imprint Page
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010