Radical comedy in early modern England: contexts, cultures, performances

"Drawing on the generic and mythic strength of comedy and the theories of Bakhtin, Bergson, and Hobbes, this book identifies the radical nature of early modern English comedy. The texts examined simultaneously create and employ standard comedic elements. Farce, absurdity, excess, over-the-top c...

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1. Verfasser: Bowers, Rick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2016
Schriftenreihe:Studies in performance and early modern drama
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Zusammenfassung:"Drawing on the generic and mythic strength of comedy and the theories of Bakhtin, Bergson, and Hobbes, this book identifies the radical nature of early modern English comedy. The texts examined simultaneously create and employ standard comedic elements. Farce, absurdity, excess, over-the-top characters, unremitting irony, black humor, toilet humor, and tricksters of all types - such features and more combine to satirize medical, religious, and political authority and to implement necessary social change. Written with a narrative ease, Radical Comedy in Early Modern England shows how comic interventions both describe and reconfigure prevalent authority in its own time while arguing that, through early modern comedy, one can observe the changes in social behavior and understandings characteristic of the Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:122 Steiten
ISBN:9781138252707
9780754663805

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