{"id":239,"date":"2017-03-06T01:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=239"},"modified":"2017-03-06T01:33:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:33:50","slug":"the-role-of-comedy-in-greenblatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/gender-trouble\/the-role-of-comedy-in-greenblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Comedy in Greenblatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of Greenblatt&#8217;s essay, I was particularly interested in the emphasis he places on the role of Shakespeare&#8217;s comedies. He writes, &#8220;for Shakespeare friction is specifically associated with verbal wit; indeed at moments the plays seem to imply that erotic friction <em>originates\u00a0<\/em>in the wantonness of language, and thus that the body itself is a tissue of metaphors or, conversely, that language is perfectly embodied&#8221;\u00a0(89). All of these elements&#8211;minus the physical re-enactment on stage with real bodies&#8211;also seem present in Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets, which I would argue are riddled with the same verbal wit. In a similar manner, the verbal wit in the sonnets also seems encoded in physical descriptions of the beloved or with gender (master-mistress). Specifically in this manner relating to verbal wit, I am wondering what differentiates comedy from the sonnet? Is the actual theatrical element of the comedy very important? Does the comedy allow more easily\/readily for parody or social criticism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of Greenblatt&#8217;s essay, I was particularly interested in the emphasis he places on the role of Shakespeare&#8217;s comedies. He writes, &#8220;for Shakespeare friction is specifically associated with verbal wit; indeed at moments the plays seem to imply that erotic friction originates\u00a0in the wantonness of language, and thus that the body itself is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-trouble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}