Shakespeare and comedy

Shakespeare and comedy

by Maslen, R. W.

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Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a detailed study which considers tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Sh…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Shakespeare and comedy / R.W. Maslen.

Summary

Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a detailed study which considers tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is always calculatedly unsettling, and that this is part of what ma.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Bloomsbury
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (281 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781408143643, 140814364X, 1408143658, 9781408143650, 1472555104, 9781472555106
  • oclc:ocn874163542
  • LC Classification:PR2994
  • Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

Table of Contents

Cover; CONTENTS; TEXTUAL NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction; Chapter One Comic Manifestos; Chapter Two Comic Conversation and Rough Justice; Chapter Three Lightness, Love and Death; Chapter Four The Plural Bodies of Shakespeare's Boys; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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Subjects

Comedies of humours Criticism, interpretation, etc Humor in literature Shakespeare, William

Writers

Maslen, R. W.

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