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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Tragicomedies"”.
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Great bellies and boy actors: pregnancy plays on the Stuart stage, 1603-1642
… Pregnancy Plays: Marginal Gestation in Tragicomedies and Problem Plays, explores how problem plays and tragicomedies relegate pregnant bodies and characters to the plays’ peripheries, while the pregnancy itself remains integral to the playwrights’ dramaturgy. I begin with Shakespeare’s …
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Sweet disaster: development of Shakespearean tragicomedy
… Well</em> and <em>Measure</em> are read as tragicomedies, all the dominant elements of the plot begin to fall into place. Scenes which for some readers appear to be only excess baggage can be understood on their own terms. I suggest, then, that tragicomedy can provide the needed structural …