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Comedy is tragedy gone wrong. In essence, that is the premise this course will pursue. We will look at the comic in Shakespeare's plays examining its proximity to fear, anxiety and violence. The ‘happy ending', which we might define as a resolution of these elements, does not come out of nowhere. It is a generic convention that plays to audience expectations. As such, it becomes subject to Shakespeare's playfulness-and all does not always end well when Shakespeare employs the comic. Beginning with one of his earliest comedies, A Comedy of Errors , this course will examine what the comic form is as a genre and as an element woven into plays now classified as tragedies or history plays. We will explore the clown tradition, how it developed out of the late medieval morality tradition, and-being essentially anarchic-how it jostled with the author for control of the stage.
This course will:
We will focus on the following principle plays:
The course will utilise film versions for some plays to get a feel for the ‘clown' in performance.
Ingen.
Joseph Sterrett
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, skriftlige opgaver og/eller mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde.
Engelsk
Set texts:
The Norton Shakespeare , eds. Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company).
David Wiles, Shakespeare's Clown: Actor and Text in the Elizabethan Playhouse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 [1987]).
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