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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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Editor''s Preface; Foreword; Chapter I: THE BACKGROUND; i: Introduction; ii: The Critical Background; iii: The Narrative Background; iv: The Dramatic Background; v: The Anthropological Background; Chapter II: THE RANGE OF SHAKESPEARE''S COMEDY; i: The Literary Kinds; ii: The Nature of Comedy; iii: Romance; Chapter III: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS; i: Its Originals; ii: Rhetoric; iii: The Romantic Framework; iv: The Comic Element; v: The Farcical Core; Chapter IV: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW; i: Initial Difficulties; ii: Comedy or Farce?; iii: The Bianca Plot; iv: Appearance and Reality. |
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V: Romancevi: Comedy; Chapter V: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA; i: The Central Flaw; ii: The Love Theme; iii: The Principle of the Corrective; iv: Anticipations; v: Conclusion; Chapter VI: LOVE''S LABOUR''S LOST; i: Initial Discouragement; ii: The Mocking of the Male Adolescence; iii: The Feast of Words; iv: The Characters; v: The Overriding Theme; vi: The End; Chapter VII: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE; i: Presuppositions: Advisable and Inadvisable; ii: Shylock; iii: Bassanio and Antonio; iv: The Total Effect; v: The Fifth Act; Appendix. |
| Summary |
Of all that has been written recently on Shakespearean comedy much is cross-sectional; much has pursued themes, patterns, images and son on, recurring throughout the sequence of plays. Less has been written about he plays themselves. There are of course the introductions to new editions; and there have been articles on this or that play: but any books surveying the whole sequence of the comedies have done so with some one special matter in mind. Thus, there may be room for a book like this; one that deals with the comedies primarily as plays, as separate entities. But such treatments need not. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (OCoLC)fst00029048
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Shakespeare, William.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Humorous plays. (OCoLC)fst01198736
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Tillyard, E.M.W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962. Shakespeare's early comedies. London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone, 1992 048530015X 9780485300154 (OCoLC)154194761 |
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9780567486769 (electronic bk.) |
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0567486761 (electronic bk.) |
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