Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

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Routledge, 11. 10. 2013 - Počet stran: 168
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.
 

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Introduction
1
Measure for Measure II ii 16287
7
2 Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure
20
3 Menander and New Comedy
30
4 Plautus and Terence
42
5 The enchantments of Circe
57
Shakespeares early comedies
77
As You Like It and Twelfth Night
94
8 Mistaking in Much Ado
109
9 Shakespeares rhetoric of consciousness
121
Notes
129
Index of plays discussed
149
General index
151
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