The Shakespearean Comic and Tragicomic: French Inflections

by Richard Hillman

In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare's deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave little scope for French ones. The author draws on specific and unsuspected points of contact, whilst also pointing out a broad tendency by the dramatist, to draw on French material, both dramatic and non-dramatic, to inflect comic forms in potentially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526144077
• ISBN13: 9781526144072
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"