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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... young folks in a generation need be submitted to the technical training for this sort of a career . The primary reason for admitting the study of literature into an academic organisation is the belief that literature has a contribution ...
... young folks in a generation need be submitted to the technical training for this sort of a career . The primary reason for admitting the study of literature into an academic organisation is the belief that literature has a contribution ...
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... young men and girls ; but solicita- tion is a social institution , whereas wooing is a mystical experience . The Romans treated such situations as mere incidents in the casual sowing of wild oats , which was by no means a bad training ...
... young men and girls ; but solicita- tion is a social institution , whereas wooing is a mystical experience . The Romans treated such situations as mere incidents in the casual sowing of wild oats , which was by no means a bad training ...
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... young folks of the play far more than Roman precedent warranted . At the very outset of the new comedy , for his Calandria , Bibbiena borrows largely from the self - same play of Plautus from which Shake- speare was to borrow for his ...
... young folks of the play far more than Roman precedent warranted . At the very outset of the new comedy , for his Calandria , Bibbiena borrows largely from the self - same play of Plautus from which Shake- speare was to borrow for his ...
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... young spark . Moreover , Ariosto's last comedy , the Scolastica , not only ties its interest down to the love of its youths for its maidens ; it even gives to that love something of the quality of romantic devotion . Without intention ...
... young spark . Moreover , Ariosto's last comedy , the Scolastica , not only ties its interest down to the love of its youths for its maidens ; it even gives to that love something of the quality of romantic devotion . Without intention ...
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... young Leander crossed the Hellespont , " and at another moment , Ariadne is remembered " passioning for Theseus ' perjury . " But the real colour of the tale is given unmistakably by the presence amongst its characters of Sir Eglamour ...
... young Leander crossed the Hellespont , " and at another moment , Ariadne is remembered " passioning for Theseus ' perjury . " But the real colour of the tale is given unmistakably by the presence amongst its characters of Sir Eglamour ...
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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