Shakespeare and Laughter<\/em><\/a>, 106).<\/p>\nShe quotes Wittgenstein on game failures: \u201cWhat is is like when people do not have the same sense of humour? They do not react properly to each other. It is as though there were a custom among certain people to throw someone a ball, which he supposed to catch & throw back; but certain people might not throw it back, but put it in their pocket instead\u201d (quoted 107).<\/p>\n
Pocketing the ball is bad play: \u201cIt is the members of society who refuse to join the game . . . who are accused of lacking a sense of humour. In the case of representations of the comic, be it in the theatre or in jesting literature, generic conventions serve as pointers that a humorous framework is being entered. Humour is only effective within a community that draws on collective, shared meanings. This is the basis for the sense of intimacy that is established through a shared response\u2014the shared sense of being part of \u2018a community of amusement\u2019\u201d (107).<\/p>\n
Malvolio in Twelfth Night<\/em> is one such bad Shakespearean player: \u201cWhat makes Malvolio such a laughing-stock . . . is, above all, his inability to interact with other members of the community. He is really punished for being what Meredith (drawing on Rabelais) terms an agelast, a spoilsport who refuses the social game\u201d (115). <\/p>\nThe logic is: Join the laughter, or become the object of laughter.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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