Shakespeare's Rhetoric Of Comic Character,9780415352710

Shakespeare's Rhetoric Of Comic Character

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415352710
ISBN10: 0415352711
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-07-11
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem "lifelike" or "realistic".

Table of Contents

The inward sprints: Measure for Measure II
Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure
Menander and New Comedy
Plautus and Terence
The enchantments of Circe
'And all their minds transfigur'd': Shakespeare's early comedies
Magic versus time: As You Like It and Twelfth Night
Mistaking in Much Ado
Shakespeare's Rhetoric of consciousness
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