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Ep 55 - Shakespeare's Comedies

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Shakespeare Loves Plays Within Plays

The convention of the play within the play is marvelously exploited in hamlet too and amid summer nights dream we wait for it. that Shakespeare loved plays within plays one of the most amusing instances comes at the beginning of the taming of the shrew. The audience need to imagine adjunctor work your thoughts if they're watching henry the fifth or kingly this is subverted with the scene in which the blind glosster believes himself to be ascending the cliffs of Dover. With prospero's final speech in the tempest prospero the shaman-like manifestation of the play right himself he says our revels now are endedThese are actors as i foretold you we're all spirits and

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