Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors: A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis uses semiotics along psychoanalytic to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies. It is distinctive in that it offers a discussion of the basic techniques found incomic literature of all kinds and applies these techniques to events in the play.
It also offers a discussion of the basic theories of humor and a syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis of the play.
Table of Content
Dedication; Epigraph; 1 Introduction ; 2 Theories of Humor; 3 Semiotics and Humor; 4 Glossary: The 45 Techniques of Humor; 5 The Comedy of Errors; 6 Coda; References; About the Author; Index
About the author
Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University.
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