Shakespeares Double Dealing Comedies

Author : Myron Stagman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818054
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Double-Dealing Comedies written by Myron Stagman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are some of Shakespeare’s romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines? {“Sexual quibbles (puns, play-on words), covertly uttered by precious-and-pure heroines, call for an immediate revision of viewpoint.”} When Fernando (The Tempest) is described as bravely swimming for shore “in lusty stroke”, would he be disqualified for doing this in Olympic competition? Before the walls of Harfleur, when Henry V threatens to “mow like grass your fresh-fair virgins” and have “your naked infants spitted upon pikes”, is he (and by inference his creator) barbarous? Or is he doing an hilarious comic imitation of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine before the walls of Damascus? {“There exists an interesting Marlovian source for the Tamburlaine protagonist himself—Ivan the Terrible. He proposed marriage to Queen Elizabeth, who tactfully turned him down.”} Rule Number 1: If a good writer seems surprisingly inept and has been known to be a wit or humorist, suspect parody or satire. Well, esteemed readers, you decide where to place your bets. On the critics? Or on William Shakespeare?

Author : Myron Stagman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443824666
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Greek Drama Secret written by Myron Stagman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To begin with, Shakespeare had a complete grammar school education, and Euripides, Sophocles and Aristophanes were assigned reading!! This book presents voluminous, striking, unmediated textual correspondences between the Greek and Shakespearean plays, and illuminating historical background. Not only should this prove the Shakespeare-Greek Drama connection, but that William Shakespeare became “Shakespeare” because of his mastery of the ancient Greek treasury of Drama. 3. “Pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums” Many of us associate Lady Macbeth’s special temper with some of the most blood-curdling lines in literature: I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. Shakespeare’s precise action image appears in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis, from verses spoken by Clytemnestra. She says to Agamemnon: It was not of my own free will but by force that Thou didst take and wed me, after slaying Tantalus, My former husband, and dashing my babe on the ground alive, When thou hadst torn him from my breast with brutal violence. The derivation of Lady Macbeth’s dashing image cannot be in doubt.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1610426320
Total Pages : 1109 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comedies of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 1109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive anthology of Shakespeare's comedies are collected here; included is an analysis of each major work and a biography about the life and times of Shakespeare. The following works are included in this collection: All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare Love’s Labour’s Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles Prince of Tyre The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter's Tale

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chuck Closson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483632822
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Dealing III: The Pun written by Chuck Closson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pun is Older than Punctuation The start and use of punctuation occurred around 1500 AD. Prior to this no commas, periods, quotation marks, etc., were used in writing. What one doesn't have, one learns to do without. Books then were rare, no printing presses. Somewhere in those early years someone decided interpretative marks were needed to enhance writing. Yet puns were employed much earlier. In the New Testament, Matthew 16:18, Jesus is quoted as having said, "You are Peter, on this rock, I will build my Church". The word Peter in that ancient language translates as "rock. In effect a pun. Another early pun the headless horseman wore an unusual necklace. A young St. Augustine prayed, "Lord, make me pure, but not yet". Someone punned him as being a "roaming Catholic". Puns are inferential; they twist together meanings and entwine connections to enhance incongruity. No ifs, ands, or butts. Just a few months ago the White House and Congress faced the Fiscal Cliff. After weeks of back and forth wrangling only a few hours remained before going over the cliff to higher taxes. Expressing her disfavor toward a do nothing Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, punningly, "Congress, it's all about time, it's about time!"

Author : William C. Carroll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400854814
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy written by William C. Carroll and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the master trope of transformation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert Maslen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140814364X
Total Pages : 281 pages
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Download or read book Shakespeare And Comedy written by Robert Maslen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay and aggressive acts of comic revenge. Through a detailed study which considers tragedies and histories as well as comedies, Maslen contends that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is always calculatedly unsettling, and that this is part of what makes it pleasurable.

Author : Bart Van Es
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198723350
Total Pages : 145 pages
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Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedies written by Bart Van Es and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare's comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard's verbal artistry and wit.

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 : William Shakespeare
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026804783
Total Pages : 1928 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Comedies of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 1928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Comedies of William Shakespeare” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The plays of Shakespeare that are usually categorised as comedies are generally identifiable as the comedies of Shakespeare in that they are full of fun, irony and dazzling wordplay. They also abound in disguises and mistaken identities with very convoluted plots that are difficult to follow, with very contrived endings. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays. Patterns in the comedies include movement to a "green world", both internal and external conflicts, and a tension between Apollonian and Dionysian values. Table of Contents: All’s Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy Of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost Measure For Measure The Merchant Of Venice The Merry Wives Of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles Prince Of Tyre The Taming Of The Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night Or, What You Will The Two Gentlemen Of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen The Winter’s Tale William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.