“When shall we laugh?”: Gratiano and the two faces of comedy in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Comedy is an inherently pleasurable phenomenon with beneficial psychological functions, but its potential to bring on undesirable and socially destabilizing consequences is less intuitively obvious. In this essay, I argue that one of the hitherto under-recognized features of William Shakespeare’s Th...
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Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen
2019
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-170753 |