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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1. Verfasser: Salingar, Leo (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 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