Aspects of Shakespeare #3 | The Comic Elements in Shakespeare’s Plays
Events List
Thursday 5th June | 6pm
The Comic Elements in Shakespeare’s Plays (1886-87)
A Gail-Nina Anderson lecture
I wonder whether a talk on this topic delivered at the Lit & Phil in 1886 may have revealed a gap in taste between Elizabethan and Victorian concepts of comedy? The humour of character may retain its essential power, but some of the Bard’s earthy vulgarity and rude word-play strikes quite a different note. This illustrated lecture challenges the notion that Shakespeare’s jokes aren’t funny, looks at the different modes of comedy from satirical to lyrical to physical, considers the specialist role of the clown in theatrical companies, consider memorable moments in recent productions, and guarantees really quite a few laughs.
A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | £5
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