“A jest with a sad brow”: Shakespeare’s ambivalent insults

Shakespeare’s insults are ambivalent creatures that oscillate between humour and pathos. That is what this article aims to show. It focuses on the part insults play in the articulation of humour and pathos in Shakespeare’s plays, Falstaff and his reference to “a jest with a sad brow” appearing as a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bucharest University Press 2023-09-01
Series:University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series
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Online Access:https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/current-issue/2023-2/2023-issue-1/