Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

ISBN-13: 9780415352710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 153 str.

Karen Newman

Opis

In this revisionist history of comic characterization, 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.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The inward springs; Chapter 2 Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure; Chapter 3 Menander and New Comedy; Chapter 4 Plautus and Terence; Chapter 5 The enchantments of Circe; Chapter 6 ‘And all their minds transfigur’d’; Chapter 7 Magic versus time; Chapter 8 Mistaking in Much Ado; Chapter 9 Shakespeare’s rhetoric of consciousness;

O autorze

Karen Newman