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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790656403321

Autore

Newman Karen <1949, >

Titolo

Shakespeare's rhetoric of comic character : dramatic convention in classical and Renaissance comedy / / Karen Newman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-136-55740-7

1-315-01825-X

0-415-48908-3

1-136-55733-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Shakespeare

Comedies ; ; Volume 6

Disciplina

166

Soggetti

Comedy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1985 by Methuen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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'.