Shakespeare's rhetoric of comic character : dramatic convention in classical and renaissance comedy
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Shakespeare's rhetoric of comic character : dramatic convention in classical and renaissance comedy
（Routledge library editions, . Shakespeare . Comedies ; 6）
Routledge, 2005, c1985
Available at 5 libraries
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Reprint. Originally published by Methuen, 1985
Includes indexes
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Description
First published in 1985.
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'. His comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The inward springs
- Chapter 2 Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure
- Chapter 3 Menander and New Comedy
- Chapter 4 Plautus and Terence
- Chapter 5 The enchantments of Circe
- Chapter 6 'And all their minds transfigur'd'
- Chapter 7 Magic versus time
- Chapter 8 Mistaking in Much Ado
- Chapter 9 Shakespeare's rhetoric of consciousness
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