Shakespearian ComedyFirst published in 1938. This is a survey of Shakepeare's comedies which illustrates the playwright's increasing grasp on the art and idea of comedy. Themes, characters and plays covered include: Romanticism in Shakespearian comedy; Shakespeare's Jew, Falstaff, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Dark Comedies. |
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... story . MediƦval romances are love - stories , and something besides . ROMANTICISM IN SHAKESPEARIAN COMEDY 23.
... story . MediƦval romances are love - stories , and something besides . ROMANTICISM IN SHAKESPEARIAN COMEDY 23.
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H. B. Charlton. romances are love - stories , and something besides . Not only are they stories of a particular kind of love ; they also incor- porate a larger tradition which moulds the quality of every element in their material . The ...
H. B. Charlton. romances are love - stories , and something besides . Not only are they stories of a particular kind of love ; they also incor- porate a larger tradition which moulds the quality of every element in their material . The ...
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... story is perforce a story of adventure . Its wooing follows elaborately prescribed formalities , and its quests penetrate strange remote regions where deeds of unexampled valour are called ROMANTICISM IN SHAKESPEARIAN COMEDY 25.
... story is perforce a story of adventure . Its wooing follows elaborately prescribed formalities , and its quests penetrate strange remote regions where deeds of unexampled valour are called ROMANTICISM IN SHAKESPEARIAN COMEDY 25.
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... story of it , there are all the main marks of the medieval tradition as that tradition had been modified ... stories of classical legend- " how young Leander crossed the Hellespont , " and at another moment , Ariadne is remembered ...
... story of it , there are all the main marks of the medieval tradition as that tradition had been modified ... stories of classical legend- " how young Leander crossed the Hellespont , " and at another moment , Ariadne is remembered ...
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... story of The Two Gentlemen of Verona . This , both in matter and in spirit , is the tradition which the Elizabethan dramatists desired to lift bodily on to their comic stage . But something somehow went wrong . The spirit of mediƦval ...
... story of The Two Gentlemen of Verona . This , both in matter and in spirit , is the tradition which the Elizabethan dramatists desired to lift bodily on to their comic stage . But something somehow went wrong . The spirit of mediƦval ...
Contents
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THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM | 44 |
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW | 73 |
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 100 |
SHAKESPEARES JEW | 123 |
FALSTAFF | 161 |
THE DARK COMEDIES | 208 |
THE CONSUMMATION | 266 |
INDEX | 299 |
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