Love and Society in Shakespearean Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and ContentThis book is about three of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night. The author discusses them as expressions of a single theory of comedy -- that is, that every element of these plays contributes to an anti-romantic interpretation -- and he interprets them only in light of this anti-romantic theory. |
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... Shakespeare's Comic Sequence ( p . 100 ) , refers to " the overtly homosexual love of Antonio for Sebastian . " 30. Leggatt , Shakespeare's Comedy of Love , 245 . 31. Barton , in Shakespearian Comedy , 173 . 32. New Arden Twelfth Night ...
... Shakespeare's Comic Sequence ( p . 100 ) , refers to " the overtly homosexual love of Antonio for Sebastian . " 30. Leggatt , Shakespeare's Comedy of Love , 245 . 31. Barton , in Shakespearian Comedy , 173 . 32. New Arden Twelfth Night ...
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... Shakespeare's Comic Sequence . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 1979 . Murry , John Middleton . Shakespeare . London : Jonathan Cape , 1936 . Musgrove , S. " Feste's Dishonesty : An Interpretation of Twelfth Night I.v.1–30 ...
... Shakespeare's Comic Sequence . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 1979 . Murry , John Middleton . Shakespeare . London : Jonathan Cape , 1936 . Musgrove , S. " Feste's Dishonesty : An Interpretation of Twelfth Night I.v.1–30 ...
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