Maurice Charney

An Introduction to the Experience of Comedy

Comedy High and Low

Fred Kaplan

Paula T. Kaufman

Barbara Ann Chernow

George A. Vallasi

This new edition provides a wealth of updated book information in a more accessible format. Volume one provides an overview of British and American fiction and poetry, from Beowulf and British folk ballads to the 20th century antihero and nonfiction novels. It also presents concise introductions to the lives, works and significance of each writer in the area. Annotated bibliographies and lists of key references provide added book selection guidance. This edition also covers "Commonwealth Literature" and an expanded chapter on "Essays and Criticism." Volume two covers American and British drama and world literature in English translation. Volume three presents general reference literature, the social sciences, and the arts. ISBN 0-83542-2145-8 (v.l); ISBN 0-8352-2146-6 (v.2); ISBN 0-8352-2147-4 (v.3): $75.00 each (For use only in the library).

A Layman's Guide to Literature

The Reader's Adviser

A leading Shakespearean authority untangles the legendary writer's witty, bawdy, and ambiguous treatment of sex, love, and desire.

Shakespeare on Love & Lust

How to Read Shakespeare

How to Read Shakespeare offers an approach to Shakespeare through reading and seeing his plays. The assumption is that Shakespeare's plays are fully comprehensible to modern readers and theater-goers and that they can be thoroughly enjoyed. The author approaches the plays creatively without the barriers of academic study. Some of the specific topics studied are Dramatic Conventions, The Poetry of the Theater, Shakespeare's Characters, Structure and Dramatic Scene, The Presented Text, and The World of the Play: Theatrical Significances. How to Read Shakespeare encourages readers to develop their histrionic imagination.

Titus Andronicus

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sexual Fiction

A Geographic and Historical Guide

Comedy

Shakespeare's Villainsand151;and Calumniators and Tyrants is a close reading of Shakespeare's plays to investiage the nature of evil. Charney closely considers the way that dramatic characters are developed in terms of language, imagery, and nonverbal stage effects. With chapters on Iago, Tarquin, Aaron, Richard Duke of Glaucester, Shylock, Claudius, Polonius, Macbeth, Edmund, Goneril, Regan, Angelo, Tybalt, Don John, Iachimo, Lucio, Julius Caesar, Leontes, and Duke Frederick, this book is the first comprehensive study of the villains in Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's Villains

In Shakespeare on Love & Lust, Maurice Charney delves deeply into Shakespeare's rhetorical and thematic development of this largest of subjects to reveal what makes his plays and poems resonate with contemporary audiences."--BOOK JACKET.

Tyranny and comedy / Daniel Gerould -- Black humor: to weep with laughing / Mathew Winston -- From Pyrrhonic to Vomedic irony / Morton Gurewitch -- Physical deformity and chivalric laughter in Renaissance England / John J. O'Connor -- Jacobean comedy and the acquisitive grasp / Malcolm Kiniry -- Hegel's theory of comedy / Anne Paolucci -- Smiles and laughter: some neurologic, developmental, and psychodynamic considerations / Herbert J. Levowitz -- Humor's devaluations in a modern idiom: the Don Juan plays of Shaw, Frisch, and Montherlant / Margaret Ganz -- The season of Twelfth Night / Ralph Berry -- Comic premises of Twelfth Night / Maurice Charney -- The sweetest rose: As You Like It as comedy of reconciliation / Charles Frey -- Travesties and the importance of being Stoppard / Coppélia Kahn -- Clearings in the jungle of life: the comedies of S.N. Behrman / Cyrus Hoy -- Candy in context / William Walling -- A pratfall can be a beautiful thing / B.H. Fussell -- Superheterodyne: radio comedy of the thirties / Don Wiener -- The reporter as comic writer: A.J. Liebling / Elmer M. Blistein -- Georges Feydeau's Hortense Said, "No Skin Off My Ass!" translated with an introduction / Norman R. Shaprio.

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