Comic transformations in Shakespeare

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Comic transformations in Shakespeare

Ruth Nevo

(Routledge library editions, . Shakespeare . Comedies ; 5)

Routledge, 2013

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"First published in 1980. Reprinted in 2005 ... First issued in paperback 2013"--T.p. verso

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First published in 1980. In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed; the Falstaff plays are seen as a watershed, and the emergence of new comic protagonists - the resourceful, anti-romantic romantic heroine and the Fool - as the summit of the achievement. The plays are explored from three complementary perspectives - theoretical, developmental and interpretative which lead to a further understanding of the powerful relation between the plays' formal complexity and their naturalistic verisimilitude.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Shakespeare's New Comedy 2. 'My glass and not my brother' 3. 'Kate of Kate Hall' 4. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 5. Navarre's world of words 6. Fancy's images 7. Jessica's monkey
  • or, The Goodwins 8. The case of Falstaff and the Merry Wives 9. 'Better than reportingly' 10. Existence in Arden 11. Nature's bias 12. Comic remedies 13. Appendix: Scanning a Shakespeare play

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