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

Karen Newman

(Routledge library editions, . Shakespeare . Comedies ; 6)

Routledge, 2005, c1985

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Reprint. Originally published by Methuen, 1985

Includes indexes

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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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