Laughter, Pain, and Wonder: Shakespeare's Comedies and the Audience in the TheaterUniversity of Delaware Press, 1990 - 197 pages This work's chief aim is to restore to readers, performers, and audiences the richness and vitality of Shakespeare's comedies. Richman explores the way in which a reader's relations to Shakespeare's literary texts differ from those of the relations between performers of Shakespeare's works and their audiences. Richman also examines the forms of humor and empathy that Shakespeare's comedies elicit. |
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... criticism , making dialogue difficult between itself and historicism or deconstruction . " But Dawson goes on to praise the theater's ability " to insist on the inescapability of subjectivity and to suggest its limits . " The following ...
... criticism , making dialogue difficult between itself and historicism or deconstruction . " But Dawson goes on to praise the theater's ability " to insist on the inescapability of subjectivity and to suggest its limits . " The following ...
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... critics use to similar ends of increasing and communicating their understanding of the play . But as I suggested at the outset , directors ponder questions that other critics do not need and often do not choose to consider . In seeking ...
... critics use to similar ends of increasing and communicating their understanding of the play . But as I suggested at the outset , directors ponder questions that other critics do not need and often do not choose to consider . In seeking ...
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... criticism of her before it allows her to find bliss . But the playwright divorces much of this criticism from malice , and Olivia is never made a target for sustained derision . In diagnosing her steward as " sick of self - love ...
... criticism of her before it allows her to find bliss . But the playwright divorces much of this criticism from malice , and Olivia is never made a target for sustained derision . In diagnosing her steward as " sick of self - love ...
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... critics dismiss Bergson because the theorist does not allow for the simultaneous existence of laughter and sympathy . " Any discus- sion that relies on the greatest comic theorist for illumination of the greatest comic dramatist must ...
... critics dismiss Bergson because the theorist does not allow for the simultaneous existence of laughter and sympathy . " Any discus- sion that relies on the greatest comic theorist for illumination of the greatest comic dramatist must ...
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