A Preface to Shakespeare''s Comedies
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Preface Books
ISBN-10
0582095905
ISBN-13
9780582095908
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Longman
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 26th, 1996
Print length
312 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 14.00 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: plays and playwrightsShakespeare studies & criticism
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This text sets out the contemporary theories and practices of comedy together with broader theories of comedy and the major themes they contain. An analysis of the major Shakespearan comedies and factual information about the contemporary scene is included here.
This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love''s Labour''s Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare''s career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context.
Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare''s comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.
Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare''s comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.
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