Comedy was at the centre of a fierce controversy that raged from
the opening of the first purpose-built playhouse in 1576 to the
closure of the theatres in 1742. Shakespeare's plays made capital
of this controversy. In them he repeatedly invokes the case made
against comedy by the theatre-haters: that it perverts the young
and incites the old to gross political and social misconduct. His
plays are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that hurts
its victims, wordplay that turns to swordplay, and acts of comic
rebellion and revenge that threaten destruction to individuals,
families and even states. His comedy is unsettling, and this is
part of what makes it pleasurable.Shakespeare and Comedy traces
Shakespeare's exploration of the precarious status of the comic and
the question of comic timing through close examination of eleven of
his plays. This illuminating study succeeds in recapturing the
sense of danger as well as delight that attached itself to
theatrical laughter in Shakespeare's lifetime.
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