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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bucknell Univ Pr
Publication date
November 30, 2007
Pages
236
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780838756805
ISBN-10
0838756808
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.18 lbs.
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$52.00
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic. In this book that topic is approached via a number of practical joke episodes, some of them well known - the deceptions Hal and Poins practice on Falstaff, the tricking of Malvolio or Parolles - the others a little less so (the "Induction" to The Taming of the Shrew, for example). In order to define more closely the many different kinds of comedy Shakespeare can find in the practical joke, comparisons are made with the use of the beffa in both Boccaccio and later Italian writers, and with similar episodes from the work of Jonson.Frequent references are also made to practical jokes as they occur in later literature or in our current popular culture and, throughout the book, there is a running argument with Freud and Bergson, still always cited (surprisingly enough) as the two chief authorities on the comic. David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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Hardcover
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from Bucknell Univ Pr (November 30, 2007)
9780838756805 | details & prices | 236 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.18 lbs | List price $52.00
About: There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic.
About: There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic.
from Bucknell Univ Pr (October 1, 2007)
9781611482829 | details & prices | 236 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $75.00
About: There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic.
About: There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described as comic.
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