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- English
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Comic Transformations in Shakespeare
About this book
First published in 1980. In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed; the Falstaff plays are seen as a watershed, and the emergence of new comic protagonists - the resourceful, anti-romantic romantic heroine and the Fool - as the summit of the achievement. The plays are explored from three complementary perspectives - theoretical, developmental and interpretative which lead to a further understanding of the powerful relation between the plays' formal complexity and their naturalistic verisimilitude.
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Index
Adam, 184
Adriana, 25–27, 27–28, 30, 33
Aemilia, 28, 30
Agroikos, 20
Aguecheek, Sir Andrew, 205, 211, 213
Alazon, 12–13
Amiens, 184
Antipholus of Ephesus, 33
Antipholus of Syracuse, 25, 26, 27–28, 33
anti-Semitism, 128
Antonio, 119, 121, 123–125, 127, 139, 168, 217; and Shylock, 129–133; and trial scene, 132–136; anti-Semitism of, 128–129
Aragon, 137–138
Armado, Don Adriano de, 73, 74–77, 76, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91
As You Like It, 92, 137, 160, 175–176, 180–198, 204; Act II, disjunctive contraries of, 183–189; and Duke Frederick, 187–189; and Phebe, 193–195; and Rosalind, 189–196; and source story, 183; comic device of 189, 195; comic disposition of, 187; dialectic on court and country, 184–185; dialectical resolution, 196; flight into the forest, 183–185; initiating circumstances for plot, 182–183; structure discussed, 181–182; unique features of, 180–182
Audrey, 186
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 14, 15, 217–218
Balthasar, 168
Baptista, 39, 40, 42
Barber, C. L., 81, 83, 86–87, 120, 181, 202–203, 213
Bartholmew, 39
Barton, Anne, 37–38, 173
Bassanio, 119, 121, 125, 127, 131, 133, 134, 138, 139
Beatrice, 162–163, 164–166, 166–169, 174–176, 177; and eavesdropping, 171–172; determined to be single, 175–176
Becker, Earnest, 69
Belch, Sir Toby, 205
Benedick, 162–163, 164, 166–169, 174–176, 177; and eavesdropping, 171–172
Berowne, 73–74, 75, 78, 84, 91; challenges courtiers’ heroic enterprise, 71–72; change of heart discuss...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Dedication
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- I. Shakespeare’s New Comedy
- II. ‘My glass and not my brother’
- III. ‘Kate of Kate Hall’
- IV. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- V. Navarre’s world of words
- VI. Fancy’s images
- VII. Jessica’s monkey; or, The Goodwins
- VIII. The Case of Falstaff and the Merry Wives
- IX. ‘Better than reportingly’
- X. Existence in Arden
- XI. Nature’s bias
- XII. Comic remedies
- Appendix: Scanning a Shakespeare play
- Selective bibliographical note
- Index