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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... play's overt stance that no such meanings are intended . It is part of the play's mischief , the undercurrent of impudence beneath the flattery , that to deny topicality is to remind the audience of its possibility . Like high - wire ...
... play's overt stance that no such meanings are intended . It is part of the play's mischief , the undercurrent of impudence beneath the flattery , that to deny topicality is to remind the audience of its possibility . Like high - wire ...
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... play's adoration of Cynthia . We see this in the crone- comedy of Sir Tophas's tribute to her beauty : ' In how sweet a proportion her cheeks hang down to her breasts like dugs , and her paps to her waist like bags ! ' ( 3.3.59–61 ) ...
... play's adoration of Cynthia . We see this in the crone- comedy of Sir Tophas's tribute to her beauty : ' In how sweet a proportion her cheeks hang down to her breasts like dugs , and her paps to her waist like bags ! ' ( 3.3.59–61 ) ...
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... play's refusal or inability to see them in anything other than the shapes they take for the imaginations of the invaders replicates the European understanding , and misunderstanding , of the natives of what for them was the new world ...
... play's refusal or inability to see them in anything other than the shapes they take for the imaginations of the invaders replicates the European understanding , and misunderstanding , of the natives of what for them was the new world ...
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Lyly Endymion | 19 |
Greene Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay | 30 |
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream | 61 |
Urheberrecht | |
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