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Shakespeare and the uses of comedy / J.A. Bryant, Jr.

Author
Bryant, J. A. (Joseph Allen), 1919-1999
Published
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1986]
Copyright Date
©1986
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Shakespeare's exploration of the human comedy -- The comedy of errors -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- Love's labor's lost -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- The taming of the shrew -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Much ado about nothing -- As you like it -- Twelfth night -- Troilus and Cressida -- All's well that ends well and Measure for measure -- Cymbeline and The winter's tale -- The tempest.
Summary
In Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy. Once the reader recognizes that justification for such an assumption is presented repeatedly in the earlier comedies -- from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night -- he has less difficulty in dispensing with the currently fashionable classifications of the later comedies as problem plays and romances or tragicomedies and thus in seeing them all as manifestations of a single impulse. Bryant shows how Shakespeare, early a.
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ISBN
9780813161488 (electronic bk.)
0813161487 (electronic bk.)
0813130956
9780813130958
0813115957
9780813115955
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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