Vicious Pranks: Comedy and Cruelty in Rabelais and Shakespeare.
This essay juxtaposes vicious pranks in François Rabelais's Pantagruel (1532) and William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1601) in order to describe a form of comic violence that functions as a knowledge claim about its target. In each case, the event of injury conveys an eager insistence on the truth...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 116; no. 3; pp. 423 - 451 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of North Carolina Press
Summer2019
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