Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character,9780415489089

Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

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ISBN13: 9780415489089
ISBN10: 0415489083
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2008-09-26
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

1. The inward sprints: Measure for Measure II 2. Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure 3. Menander and New Comedy 4. Plautus and Terence 5. The enchantments of Circe 6. 'And all their minds transfigur'd': Shakespeare's early comedies 7. Magic versus time: As You Like It and Twelfth Night 8. Mistaking in Much Ado 9. Shakespeare's Rhetoric of consciousness

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