Karen Newman

Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem "lifelike" or "realistic".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136557408
• Artikelnr.: 39704280

Autorenporträt

Karen Newman

Inhaltsangabe

1. The inward sprints: Measure for Measure II 2. Comic plot conventions in
Measure for Measure 3. Menander and New Comedy4. Plautus and Terence5. The
enchantments of Circe 6. 'And all their minds transfigur'd': Shakespeare's
early comedies 7. Magic versus time: As You Like It and Twelfth Night 8.
Mistaking in Much Ado 9. Shakespeare's Rhetoric of consciousness