{"product_id":"shakespeares-rhetoric-of-comic-character-9780415489089","title":"Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Karen Newman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1985. In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. His comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46885881872535,"sku":"9780415489089","price":6737.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415489089.webp?v=1770249412","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shakespeares-rhetoric-of-comic-character-9780415489089","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}