Shakespeare and the traditions of comedy
This book relates Shakespeare's comedies to a broad European background. At the beginning and again at the end of his career, Shakespeare was attracted by a tradition of stage romances which can be traced back to Chaucer's time. But the main shaping behind his comedies came from the classi...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1974
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- Part one: the unfaithful mirror
- Comedy as celebration
- Character and plot
- Part two: medieval stage romances
- Early Elizabethan romances
- Medieval stage heroines
- Egeon and Apollonius
- Survivals of medieval staging
- Part three: 'errors' and deceit in classical comedy
- The trickster in classical comedy
- The trickster, continued
- Part four: Fortune in classical comedy
- The wheel of fortune
- Fortune as trickster
- Part five: Shakespeare and Italian comedy
- Three Italian comedies
- Double plots in Shakespeare
- Part six: An Elizabethan playwright
- The player in the play
- Marriages and magistrates