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"Shakespeare's comedies are among the world's great celebrations of love and romance. But for Shakespeare, the trials and tribulations of love become a subject for both laughter and sympathy, presented in a dramatic form that combines such diverse elements as high poetic imagination, probingly intelligent criticism and uproariously farcical popular entertainment." "This is the complex image that Shakespeare: The Comedies seeks to project for its readers...
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"Shakespeare's comedies and romances are here examined individually, in chronological order, from a single point of view and by way of a dramatic characteristic they have in common. Shakespeare usually opens as quickly as possible, and then holds open as long as possible, one or more 'gaps' between the awareness of character and audience, and character and character. From exploitation of the gaps between awarenesses arise many of the most characteristic...
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"The comedies of Shakespeare have received substantially less critical attention than the tragedies or the histories. Dr. Brown's account of the comedies succeeds in isolating the distinctive genre as well as acknowledging the capriciousness and astonishing vitality of invention which Shakespeare brought to it."--Back cover
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Discusses all seventeen of Shakespeare's comedies from "Comedy of Errors" (1592-1593) to "The Tempest" (1611-1612), providing, for each play, a brief stage history with photographs of recent productions and woven into the text of this very readable study are explorations of various aspects of Shakespeare's art, such as his skill in juggling the multilevel plot, his mastery of verse, and his genius for characterization.
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"For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed throughout the Western hemisphere. The scope and speed of this transformation makes it one of the most amazing feats in modern history. Greatest Emancipations tells this fascinating story, focusing on abolitionists in areas where slavery was most entrenched: Haiti, the British Caribbean, the...
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This work's chief aim is to restore to readers, performers, and audiences the richness and vitality of Shakespeare's comedies. Richman explores the way in which a reader's relations to Shakespeare's literary texts differ from those of the relations between performers of Shakespeare's works and their audiences. Richman also examines the forms of humor and empathy that Shakespeare's comedies elicit.
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