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Book Synopsis A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies by : Michael Mangan
Download or read book A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies written by Michael Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies by : Penny Gay
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies written by Penny Gay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.
Book Synopsis A Preface To Shakespeare's Comedies by : Michael Mangan
Download or read book A Preface To Shakespeare's Comedies written by Michael Mangan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies by : Michael Mangan
Download or read book A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Michael Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". It looks at these plays in a variety of contexts - both in isolation and in relation to each other and to the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts which produced them.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Comedies by : Bart Van Es
Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedies written by Bart Van Es and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare's comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard's verbal artistry and wit.
Book Synopsis Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies by : Grant W. Smith
Download or read book Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies written by Grant W. Smith and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies' presents a comprehensive study of names in Shakespeare’s comedies. Although names are used in daily speech as simple designators, often with minimal regard for semantic or phonological suggestiveness, their coinage is always based on analogy. They are words (i.e., signs) borrowed from previous referents and contexts, and applied to new referents. Thus, in the literary use of language, names are figurative inventions and have measurable thematic significance: they evoke an association of attributes between two or more referents, contextualize each work of literature within its time, and reflect the artistic development of the writer. In the introduction, Smith describes the literary use of names as creative choices that show the indebtedness of authors to previous literature, as well as their imaginative descriptions (etymologically and phonologically) of memorable character types, and their references to cultural phenomena that make their names meaningful to their contemporary readers and audience. This book presents fourteen essays demonstrating the analytical models explained in the introduction. These essays focus on Shakespeare’s comedies as presented in the First Folio. They do not follow the chronological order of their composition; instead, the individual essays give special attention to differences between the plays that suggest Shakespeare’s artistic development, including the varied sources of his borrowings, the differences between his etymological and phonological coinages, the frequency and types of his topical references, and his use of epithets and generics. This book will appeal to Shakespeare students and scholars at all levels, particularly those who are keen on studying his comedies. This study will also be relevant for researchers and graduate students interested in onomastics. He can be reached at [email protected].
Book Synopsis A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies by : Michael Mangan
Download or read book A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies written by Michael Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies by : Patrick Swinden
Download or read book An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies written by Patrick Swinden and published by Springer. This book was released on 1976-06-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Preface to Shakespeare by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Preface to Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Preface to Shakespeare" by Samuel Johnson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Preface to Shakespeare by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Preface to Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Comedy of As You Like it by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedy of As You Like it written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Preface to Shakespeare (1925) by : George. H. Cowling
Download or read book A Preface to Shakespeare (1925) written by George. H. Cowling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1908, this book considers the work of William Shakespeare. Providing notes and commentaries on some of his poems and plays, as well as context from English history, and analysis from his contemporaries and successors, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher and Massinger, this book will be an interesting read for those interested in his work.
Download or read book Preface written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Preface to Shakespeare (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Preface to Shakespeare (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) written by Samuel Johnson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1966 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An introduction to Shakespeare's comedies by :
Download or read book An introduction to Shakespeare's comedies written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Comedy of the Taming of the Shrew by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedy of the Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
