Shakespearean CriticismPresents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Includes aesthetic criticism, textual criticism, and criticism of Shakespeare in performance. |
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Page 279
... gulling . The trick played on Malvolio is of the savage , vengeful kind ( known in the commedia dell'arte as a beffa ) whereas Maria's gulling of Olivia and Sir Toby is essentially harmless ( thus , in Italian terms , a burla ) ...
... gulling . The trick played on Malvolio is of the savage , vengeful kind ( known in the commedia dell'arte as a beffa ) whereas Maria's gulling of Olivia and Sir Toby is essentially harmless ( thus , in Italian terms , a burla ) ...
Page 284
... gulling ' reinforce one another in the play . In the last Act , the limit of comedy is attained with the denunciation of gulling . Of the tricking of Malvolio , Orsino remarks : " This savours not much of distraction ' ( 5. 1. 311 ) ...
... gulling ' reinforce one another in the play . In the last Act , the limit of comedy is attained with the denunciation of gulling . Of the tricking of Malvolio , Orsino remarks : " This savours not much of distraction ' ( 5. 1. 311 ) ...
Page 285
... gulling may unleash evil impulses in apparently good - natured characters . Malvo- lio has committed no crime , he is appreciated by Olivia for the quality of his stewardship and , if his humiliation may appear as poetic justice , his ...
... gulling may unleash evil impulses in apparently good - natured characters . Malvo- lio has committed no crime , he is appreciated by Olivia for the quality of his stewardship and , if his humiliation may appear as poetic justice , his ...
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