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Karen Newman
Shakespeare”s Rhetoric of Comic Character

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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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Format PDF ● Pages 168 ● ISBN 9781136557330 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2811463 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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