Shakespeare and laughter: A cultural history
ISBN: 9781847791696
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. It is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It argues that since the early modern period a paradigm shift has taken place in our attitudes to laughter and the role pivotal role of Shakespeare in this.

Ghose Indira :

Indira Ghose is Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandIndira Ghose is Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland


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