Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character
First published in 1985.

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'. His comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance.
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Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character
First published in 1985.

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'. His comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance.
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Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

by Karen Newman
Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character
Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

by Karen Newman

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First published in 1985.

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'. His comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415489089
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/26/2008
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. The inward sprints: Measure for Measure II 2. Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure 3. Menander and New Comedy4. Plautus and Terence5. 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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