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Challenging the traditional view that Shakespeare’s early comedies are about the experience of romantic love and constitute a genre called romantic comedy, Camille Wells Slights demonstrates that they dramatize individual action in the context of social dynamics, reflecting and commenting on the cul...
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Slights, Camille Wells, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths / Camille Wells Slights. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©1993 1 online resource (290 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Part I: Belonging -- 2. Egeon's Friends and Relations: The Comedy of Errors -- 3. The Raw and the Cooked in The Taming of the Shrew -- Part II: Cultural Values and the Values of Culture -- 4. Common Courtesy in The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- 5. Learning and Language in Love's Labor's Lost -- Part III: Change and Continuity -- 6. The Changes and Chances of Mortal Life in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 7. Deserving and Diversity in The Merchant of Venice -- Part IV: Court and Country -- 8. Pastoral and Parody in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- 9. The Unauthorized Language of Much Ado About Nothing -- Part V: Renewal and Reciprocity -- 10. Changing Places in Arden: As You Like It -- 11. The Principle of Recompense in Twelfth Night -- 12. Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Challenging the traditional view that Shakespeare’s early comedies are about the experience of romantic love and constitute a genre called romantic comedy, Camille Wells Slights demonstrates that they dramatize individual action in the context of social dynamics, reflecting and commenting on the culture in which they originated. Shakespeare’s Comic Commonwealths sheds new light on ten Shakespearean comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. In a diversity of comic forms – from rollicking farce to tragicomedy – these plays offer varying perspectives on the forces that make and mar human communities.Dramatizing tensions between savagery and civilization, autonomy and dependence, and isolation and community, Shakespeare’s comedies both reflect and comment on the society that produces them. Slights eschews viewing these comedies as endorsements of the prevailing ideologies of sixteenth-century England or as subversions of that hierarchical, patriarchal culture. They can be most fruitfully understood as imaginative forms that present cultural practices, institutions and beliefs as human constructions susceptible to critical scrutiny. While exposing the injustice and brutality as well as the assurances and satisfactions of social experiences, Shakespeare’s comedies represent people as inescapably social beings.By combining historical scholarship with formal analysis and incorporating insights from social anthropology and feminist theory, Shakespeare’s Comic Commonwealths offers new readings of Shakespeare’s early comedies and analyses the interaction between the plays and the social structures and processes of early modern England. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442679894 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442679894 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442679894.jpg |
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