Comic transformations in Shakespeare / Ruth Nevo.

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 r...

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Main Author: Nevo, Ruth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Edition:First issued in paperback 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Shakespeare's new comedy
  • 'My glass and not my brother'
  • 'Kate of Kate Hall'
  • The two gentlemen of Verona
  • Navarre's world of words
  • Fancy's images
  • Jessica's monkey; or, the Goodwins
  • The case of Falstaff and The merry wives
  • 'Better than reportingly'
  • Existence in Arden
  • Nature's bias
  • Comic remedies
  • Appendix: scanning a Shakespeare play.