Shakespeare's rhetoric of comic character : dramatic convention in classical and Renaissance comedy / / Karen Newman
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| Autore: |
Newman Karen <1949, >
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| Titolo: |
Shakespeare's rhetoric of comic character : dramatic convention in classical and Renaissance comedy / / Karen Newman
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 166 |
| Soggetto topico: | Comedy |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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'. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shakespeare's rhetoric of comic character |
| ISBN: | 1-315-01825-X |
| 0-415-48908-3 | |
| 1-136-55733-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453679803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge library editions. . -Shakespeare.