Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy/ by Leo Salingar

By:

Salingar, Leo

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.Description: x,356pSubject(s):

DDC classification:

822.33 LEO/S

Contents:

1. The unfaithful mirror -- Comedy as celebration -- Character and plot -- 2. Medieval stage romances -- Early Elizabethan romances -- Medieval stage heroines -- Egeon and Apollonius -- Survivals of medieval staging -- 3. 'Errors' and deceit in classical comedy -- The trickster in classical comedy -- The trickster, continued -- 4. Fortune in classical comedy -- The wheel of fortune -- Fortune as trickster -- 5. Shakespeare and Italian comedy -- Three Italian comedies -- Double plots in Shakespeare -- 6. An Elizabethan playwright -- THe player in the play -- Marriages and magistrates.

Summary: This book relates Shakespeare's comedies to a broad European background. At the beginning and again at the end of his career, Shakespeare was attracted by a tradition of stage romances which can be traced back to Chaucer's time.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Study Centre Alappuzha, University of Kerala	Study Centre Alappuzha, University of Kerala	822.33 LEO/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		USCA2468

1. The unfaithful mirror --
Comedy as celebration --
Character and plot --
2. Medieval stage romances --
Early Elizabethan romances --
Medieval stage heroines --
Egeon and Apollonius --
Survivals of medieval staging --
3. 'Errors' and deceit in classical comedy --
The trickster in classical comedy --
The trickster, continued --
4. Fortune in classical comedy --
The wheel of fortune --
Fortune as trickster --
5. Shakespeare and Italian comedy --
Three Italian comedies --
Double plots in Shakespeare --
6. An Elizabethan playwright --
THe player in the play --
Marriages and magistrates.

This book relates Shakespeare's comedies to a broad European background. At the beginning and again at the end of his career, Shakespeare was attracted by a tradition of stage romances which can be traced back to Chaucer's time.

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