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Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure

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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
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Comedy [PDF]

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Comedy is a fundamental part of the human experience. Collecting the work of today's leading scholars, Maurice Charney presents 40 essays on the many forms that comedy has taken throughout history. Ranging from the comic plays of ancient times to Renaissance and Restoration comedies, from Commedia dell'Arte to stand-up performers, from trickster tales ...
Butler, A.
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The Comedy of Errors as Problem Comedy

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 1987
Many elements combine in The Comedy of Errors to create a genera mista: the tragicomedy of the Egeon frame, the romantic comedy of S. Antipholus's love for Luciana, the predominant farce of a mistakenidentity plot with its knockabout humor. The plot develops out of a series of quests: Egeon seeks his son and finds his family; S.
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Comedy of Terrors

2023
The national security state crafts an enormous volume of materials “connecting the dots” between seemingly unrelated events and people to identify and anatomize sources of threat. This essay traces the production and circulation of these forms of bureaucratic and judicial artifice, or national security fictions, which are the everyday currency of state-
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Italian Comedy and the Comedy of Errors

Comparative Literature, 1967
W. BALDWIN'S latest word on the compositional genetics T of The Comedy of Errors accounts exhaustively for every single gene, and not one is Italian. Nevertheless, Professor Baldwin states that Shakespeare's comedy is "probably the most fundamentally Italianate play of the English lot, and yet there is not a specific element which can be traced to ...
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Comedy and critique

2018
Comedy & Critique is a sociological inquiry which seeks to engage with the art-world of the stand-up comedian as well as providing an interpretation of comedic works. It demonstrates a correspondence between what is happening within stand-up comedy and what is going on in the society from which the comic ...
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Misrule as Comedy; Comedy as Misrule

2011
This chapter considers the tendency for Elizabethan comedy to be a saturnalia, rather than to represent saturnalian experience. In Elizabethan England, a direct development of comedy out of festivity was prevented by the existence of an already developed dramatic literature—and by the whole moral superstructure of Elizabethan society.
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The Comedy of Errors : Style as Comedy

The Comedy of Errors introduces relatively basic versions of characters and themes that recur with increasingly greater complexity throughout Shakespeare’s oeuvre. This initial chapter on the Errors emphasizes its constant playful shifts in style, which upend another common misapprehension about Shakespeare: that he always writes in ...
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