Shakespeare and laughter [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history / / Indira Ghose
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| Autore: |
Ghose Indira
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| Titolo: |
Shakespeare and laughter [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history / / Indira Ghose
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822.33 |
| Soggetto topico: | Laughter in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Courtliness and laughter; 2 Laughter and recreation in the Shakespearean theatre; 3 Early modern humour; 4 The Puritans and laughter; 5 Lear's Fool; Select bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical treatises and courtesy manuals to Puritan tracts and jestbook literature. It argues that few cultural phenomena have undergone as radical a change in meaning as laughter.Laughter became bound up with questio |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shakespeare and laughter |
| ISBN: | 1-78170-098-2 |
| 1-84779-169-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465638903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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