Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character
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Italian Comedy
Menander's Play
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- ISBN 9780415489089
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1985.
In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. His comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance.
