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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... Tempest is full of action . At once grave and playful , Gonzalo's speech toys with an attractive impossibility . At the opposite end of the scale is the carnivalesque absurdity of the rebellion conducted by Stephano , Trinculo and ...
... Tempest is full of action . At once grave and playful , Gonzalo's speech toys with an attractive impossibility . At the opposite end of the scale is the carnivalesque absurdity of the rebellion conducted by Stephano , Trinculo and ...
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... Tempest as a play about coloni- alism naturally concentrate on Caliban as oppressed native . But Caliban is an islander in the same sense that ( for example ) I am a Canadian - born there of a mother who was born elsewhere . It may be ...
... Tempest as a play about coloni- alism naturally concentrate on Caliban as oppressed native . But Caliban is an islander in the same sense that ( for example ) I am a Canadian - born there of a mother who was born elsewhere . It may be ...
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... Tempest ends , seemingly , with a moving image of the surrender of power ; but with enough of its pervasive scepticism in place to leave us wondering how far we can believe it . Notes 1 There is no point in attempting a full listing ...
... Tempest ends , seemingly , with a moving image of the surrender of power ; but with enough of its pervasive scepticism in place to leave us wondering how far we can believe it . Notes 1 There is no point in attempting a full listing ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
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