Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character: Dramatic Convention in Classical and Renaissance Comedy by Karen Newman
Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character: Dramatic Convention in Classical and Renaissance Comedy
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Karen Newman
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Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character: Dramatic Convention in Classical and Renaissance Comedy

Karen Newman

153 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

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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 'real...

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