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...

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Published in:	Studies in Philology Vol. 116; no. 3; pp. 423 - 451
Main Author:	Simon, David Carroll
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of North Carolina Press Summer2019
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Rabelais, François, 1495-1553 Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will (Play : Shakespeare) Witnesses Practical jokes in literature
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