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| | Shakespeare -- Comedy @ Theatre w/Anatoly |
 | | Comedies treat subjects lightly, meaning they don't treat seriously such things as love. |
 | | Shakespeare's comedies often use puns, metaphors, and insults to provoke "thoughtful laughter." The action is often strained by artificiality, especially elaborate and contrived endings. |
 | | Readings: Robert G. Hunter, Shakespeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness (1965); Arthur Kirsch, Shakespeare and the Experience of Love (1981); Alexander Leggatt, Shakespeare's Comedy of Love (1974, reprinted 1990); W. Thomas MacCary, Friends and Lovers: The Phenomenology of Desire in Shakespearean Comedy (1985); and Leo Salingar, Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy (1974). |
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