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Arthur Asa Berger
Shakespeare’s "The Comedy of Errors" [PDF ebook]
A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis

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Arthur Asa Berger’s Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errorsuses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach 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 in comic 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.It provides an overview of the theories of humor, what the author calls why theories, to provide a general understanding of how humor works. This is contrasted with his 45 techniques which deal with what makes people laugh.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 250 ● ISBN 9781839984990 ● Publisher Anthem Press ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8683111 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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