SHAKESPEARE'S RHETORIC OF COMIC CHARACTER by Karen Newman ( 9780415489089 )

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Title:

SHAKESPEARE'S RHETORIC OF COMIC CHARACTER

By:

Karen Newman

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Paperback

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0415489083

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9780415489089

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

26 September, 2008

Pages:

168

Description:

Argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. This book argues that his comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance.

Synopsis:

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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