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Hale, John Kenealey was born on February 26, 1939 in London. Son of Kenneth George and Betty (Kennelly) Hale.
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The Shakespeare of the Comedies: A multiple approach
(In his first ten comedies Shakespeare is at his most myri...)
In his first ten comedies Shakespeare is at his most myriad-minded and companionable. He concentrates on giving wide, deep, serious pleasure. «We'll strive to please you every day». So these plays suit a multiple approach which in turn centres on pleasure. The connected approaches begin with sources and their construction into multiple plot, whose firmness and pleasure Shakespeare well understood. His transforming of sources is also the surest evidence we have of genesis. Next, moving from structure to texture, the study examines the moment-to-moment excitements of the text. Their pleasure principle is then theorised. But pleasure impinges both in the completed effect of each play and in its succession of intense pleasures: the diversity of relations between whole and parts is examined and theorised. Finally, a theory of comedy and of «multiple» approach to it is adumbrated, and briefly tested on Shakespeare's comic work beyond the ten comedies. Throughout, the reader is offered a method, by which to teach as well as research these inimitable plays. The method moves from probabilities, then probes pleasure seriously, as indeed Shakespeare himself did.
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John Kenealey Hale
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Education
Bachelor with honors, Oxford University, 1961. Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1964. Diploma in education, Durham University, England, 1962.
Doctor of Philosophy, Edinburgh University, 1971.
Career
Assistant professor University Manitoba, Canada, 1969-1971. Senior lecturer University Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, since 1971.
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The Shakespeare of the Comedies: A multiple approach
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The Shakespeare of the Comedies: A multiple approach
Membership
Treasurer, secretary, president Amnesty International, Dunedin, 1973-1979. Member Modern Language Association.
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Married Beatrice Ann Clark, July 27, 1968. Children: Elizabeth, Katharine, John.
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Roman Catholic
Education
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1961
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1964
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1962
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1971
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1969 - 1971
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1971