Shakespeare And Classical Comedy

Author : Robert S. Miola
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Classical Comedy written by Robert S. Miola and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys Shakespeare's comedies, charting the influence upon them of the ancient playwrights, Plautus and Terence. Robert S. Miola analyses these sources, and places the comedies in their Renaissance context, as well as in the larger context of European theatre. Discovering new indebtedness, and discerning new patterns in previously attested borrowings, Shakespeare and Classical Comedy presents an integrated and comprehensive assessment of the complex interactions of the Classical, Shakespearean, and other Renaissance theatres. Robert S. Miola re-evaluates Plautus and Terence in the light of their Greek antecedents, and gives special attention to Renaissance translations and commentaries, Italian theorists, and playwrights, as well as contemporary dramatists such as Middleton, Jonson, Heywood, and Chapman. Four broad categories organize the discussion - New Comedic errors, intrigue, alazoneia (pretension), and romance - and each is illustrated by illuminating readings of individual Shakespearean plays. The author keeps in view Shakespeare's eclecticism, his habit of combining disparate sources and traditions, as well as the rich history of literary criticism and theatrical interpretation. The book concludes by discussing the presence of New Comedy in tragedy, in Hamlet and King Lear. Robert S. Miola's thoroughly researched book ranges over a vast amount of European drama, from Aristophanes to Beckett and Ionesco. It makes an important contribution to our understanding not only of Shakespeare and his foremost antecedents, but also of Renaissance theatre, and its complex adaptations of ancient texts and traditions.

Author : Larry S. Champion
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674271418
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Shakespeare's Comedy written by Larry S. Champion and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of Shakespeare's comedy, in Larry Champion's view, is apparent in the expansion of his comic vision to include a complete reflection of human life while maintaining a comic detachment for the audience. Like the other popular dramatists of Elizabethan England, Shakespeare used the diverse comic motifs and devices which time and custom had proved effective. He went further, however, and created progressively deeper levels of characterization and plot interaction, thereby forming characters who were not merely devices subordinated to the needs of the plot. Shakespeare's development as a comic playwright, suggests Champion, was "consistently in the direction of complexity or depth of characterization." His earliest works, like those of his contemporaries, are essentially situation comedies: the humor arises from action rather than character. There is no significant development of the main characters; instead, they are manipulated into situations which are humorous as a result, for example, of mistaken identity or slapstick confusion. The ensuing phase of Shakespeare's comedy sets forth plots in which the emphasis is on identity rather than physical action, a revelation of character which occurs in one of two forms: either a hypocrite is exposed for what he actually is or a character who has assumed an unnatural or abnormal pose is forced to realize and admit the ridiculousness of his position. In the final comedies involving sin and sacrificial forgiveness, however, character development is concerned with a "transformation of values." Although each of the comedies is discussed, Champion concentrates on nine, dividing them according to the complexity of characterization. He pursues as well the playwright's efforts to achieve for the spectator the detached stance so vital to comedy. Shakespeare obtained this perspective, Champion observes, through experimentation with the use of material mirroring the main action--mockery, parody, or caricature--and through the use of a "comic pointer" who is himself involved in the action but is sufficiently independent of the other characters to provide the audience with an omniscient view.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959487
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Comedy written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.

Author : Leo Salingar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521291132
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy written by Leo Salingar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.

Author : Robert S. Miola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Classical Comedy written by Robert S. Miola and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allison Williams
Publisher : Theatrefolk
ISBN 13 : 1926533232
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MmmBeth written by Allison Williams and published by Theatrefolk. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A hilarious mixed-gender take on the Scottish play! Everything goes wrong. The witches take over the storytelling, Queen Duncan would rather open a donut franchise than die, Lady M's a bloodthirsty June Cleaver, and the murderers are preoccupied with creating a commercial for their services"--Back cover.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comedy of Errors written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. B. Charlton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136556214
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespearian Comedy written by H. B. Charlton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1938. This is a survey of Shakepeare's comedies which illustrates the playwright's increasing grasp on the art and idea of comedy. Themes, characters and plays covered include: Romanticism in Shakespearian comedy; Shakespeare's Jew, Falstaff, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Dark Comedies.

Author : Colin Burrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199684782
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity written by Colin Burrow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity explains the nature and extent of Shakspeare's classical learning, exploring why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek'. It examines Shakespeare's relationship to classical texts and how this relationship changed in the course of his career.

Author : Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Comedy and Shakespeare written by Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: