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The Shakespearean Comic and Tragicomic: French Inflections

The Shakespearean Comic and Tragicomic: French Inflections

Hillman, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Manchester University Press

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 1526144077
ISBN13: 9781526144072
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jan 17 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare's deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave little scope for French ones. The author draws on specific and unsuspected points of contact, whilst also pointing out a broad tendency by the dramatist, to draw on French material, both dramatic and non-dramatic, to inflect comic forms in potentially tragic directions. The resulting internal tensions are evident from the earliest comedies to the latest tragicomedies (or 'romances').

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