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Shakespeare And Comedy

Shakespeare And Comedy

Maslen, Robert

Paperback

Series: Arden Critical Companions

Literary CriticismPlaysShakespeare

ISBN10: 1904271448
ISBN13: 9781904271444
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 26 2005
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.54 Width: 7.53 Depth: 7.83
Language: English
Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. In a detailed study of seventeen plays, tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is always calculatedly unsettling, and that this is part of what makes it pleasurable.

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