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... comedy . In The Taming of the Shrew we have a play which is part romantic comedy , part farce . What Shakespeare emphasizes here is the foolishness of trying to destroy order , not the horror . “ I am ashamed , " says Katharine , that ...
... comedy . In The Taming of the Shrew we have a play which is part romantic comedy , part farce . What Shakespeare emphasizes here is the foolishness of trying to destroy order , not the horror . “ I am ashamed , " says Katharine , that ...
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... Comedy - by Professor L. C. Knights . He attacks the habit of generalizing as to the nature of comedy . " Comedy , " he says , " has provided a happy hunting - ground for the generalizers . It is almost impossible to read a particular ...
... Comedy - by Professor L. C. Knights . He attacks the habit of generalizing as to the nature of comedy . " Comedy , " he says , " has provided a happy hunting - ground for the generalizers . It is almost impossible to read a particular ...
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... comedy which Professor Knights attacks is the view " that Comedy is a Social Corrective , comic laughter a medicine administered to Society to cure its aberrations from the norm of Good Sense " ; and he goes on to point out that ...
... comedy which Professor Knights attacks is the view " that Comedy is a Social Corrective , comic laughter a medicine administered to Society to cure its aberrations from the norm of Good Sense " ; and he goes on to point out that ...
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Foreword Page | 7 |
Shakespeare and the OrderDisorder | 39 |
and Cressida | 89 |
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