“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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| Language: | English |
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Bucharest University Press
2023-09-01
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| 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/ |