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Autore |
Newman Karen <1949, > |
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Shakespeare's rhetoric of comic character : dramatic convention in classical and Renaissance comedy / / Karen Newman |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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1-136-55740-7 |
1-315-01825-X |
0-415-48908-3 |
1-136-55733-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge library editions. Shakespeare |
Comedies ; ; Volume 6 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 1985 by Methuen. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. The inward sprints: Measure for Measure II 2. Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure 3. Menander and New Comedy4. Plautus and Terence5. The enchantments of Circe 6. 'And all their minds transfigur'd': Shakespeare's early comedies 7. Magic versus time: As You Like It and Twelfth Night 8. Mistaking in Much Ado 9. Shakespeare's Rhetoric of consciousness |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this revisionist history of comic characterisation, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. |
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