Comic transformations in Shakespeare / Ruth Nevo.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780415846660 (pbk.)
- 822.33 NEV 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
First published in 1980. In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed; the Falstaff plays are seen as a watershed, and the emergence of new comic protagonists - the resourceful, anti-romantic romantic heroine and the Fool - as the summit of the achievement. The plays are explored from three complementary perspectives - theoretical, developmental and interpretative which lead to a further understanding of the powerful relation between the plays' formal compl.
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