Introduction to English Renaissance ComedyManchester University Press, 1999 - 186 Seiten This guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public and private theatres, encompassing the eclective, experimental nature of this comedy: its departures from the mainstream New Comedy tradition and its searching, witty analysis of social and personal relations in court, city and country. This book, an analysis of some of the richest comedies of the periods, makes sometimes inexpected connection between them: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, Lyly's Endymion, Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Marston's The Malcontent, Middleton's Michaelmas Term, Jonson's Bartholemew Fair, Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure and Brome's A Jovial Crew. Through these plays the reader is given a picture of English comedy in one of its most creative periods. |
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... Prospero controls , with palpable effort , powers whose true nature we never quite see . He determines the way they appear to us , and in that way his hold over the audience is greater than Bacon's ; but his power in the long run is no ...
... Prospero controls , with palpable effort , powers whose true nature we never quite see . He determines the way they appear to us , and in that way his hold over the audience is greater than Bacon's ; but his power in the long run is no ...
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... Prospero at this point . We always seem to be looking at Ferdinand and Miranda from a distance , as though the author of The Tempest could not write so directly of young love as could the author of , say , As You Like It . Prospero also ...
... Prospero at this point . We always seem to be looking at Ferdinand and Miranda from a distance , as though the author of The Tempest could not write so directly of young love as could the author of , say , As You Like It . Prospero also ...
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... Prospero ( pp . 174-99 ) , in contrast to the rough handling he gets in much late twentieth- century criticism . The latter is exemplified by de Grazia's listing of the parallels between Prospero and Sycorax ( " Gratuitious ' , pp . 255 ...
... Prospero ( pp . 174-99 ) , in contrast to the rough handling he gets in much late twentieth- century criticism . The latter is exemplified by de Grazia's listing of the parallels between Prospero and Sycorax ( " Gratuitious ' , pp . 255 ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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