A Preface To Shakespeare S Comedies
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A Preface to Shakespeare s Comedies
Author | : Michael Mangan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : 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.
A Preface To Shakespeare s Comedies
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Author | : Michael Mangan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 817808872X |
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare s Comedies
Author | : Penny Gay |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2008-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139469777 |
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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.
A Preface to Shakespeare s Tragedies
Author | : Michael Mangan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781317880769 |
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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.
Shakespeare s Comedies
Author | : Bart Van Es |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780198723356 |
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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.
An Introduction to Shakespeare s Comedies
Author | : Patrick Swinden |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1976-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781349017515 |
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Shakespeare s Comedy of As You Like it
Author | : William Shakespeare,Sir Israel Gollancz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020691914 |
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A Preface to Shakespeare s Comedies
Author | : Michael Mangan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781317895046 |
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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.