Shakespeare and Laughter
Indira Ghose
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Description for Shakespeare and Laughter
Paperback. This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. It is the first study to focus on laughter, not comedy, arguing that since the early modern period a paradigm shift has taken place in our attitudes to laughter and investigates the role Shakespeare played in this connection. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical treatises and courtesy manuals to Puritan tracts and jestbook literature. It argues that few cultural phenomena have undergone as radical a change in meaning as laughter.
Laughter became bound up with questions of taste and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719087004
SKU
V9780719087004
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99-15
About Indira Ghose
Indira Ghose is Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. -- .
Reviews for Shakespeare and Laughter
Shakespeare and Laughter is ambitiously wide-ranging Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement, 17th October 2008, p.23
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