The evolution of Shakespeare's comedy, in Larry Champion's view, is apparent in the expansion of his comic vision to include a complete reflection of human life while maintaining a comic detachment for the audience. Like the other popular dramatists of Elizabethan England, Shakespeare used the diverse comic motifs and devices which time and custom had proved effective. He went further, however, and created progressively deeper levels of characterization and plot interaction, thereby forming characters who were not merely devices subordinated to the needs of the plot.
Shakespeare's...
The evolution of Shakespeare's comedy, in Larry Champion's view, is apparent in the expansion of his comic vision to include a complete reflection ...
Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play--one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after...
Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's ...
This volume presents fifteen original essays that move from structural and thematic subjects to matters of historical and cultural significance. Contributors to "Quick Springs of Sense" cover a remarkably wide variety of the literary interests and figures of England from the Augustan Age until midcentury including the periodical, "Gulliver s Travels," Defoe, Fielding, the episodic novel as a genre, Smollett, Sterne, and the poetry of Swift and Pope. Its variety and liveliness aptly convey the vigor of the neoclassical age itself where there were many quick springs of sense."
This volume presents fifteen original essays that move from structural and thematic subjects to matters of historical and cultural significance. Contr...
This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish.
This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneous...
