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Beyond a common joy : an introduction to Shakespearean comedy / Paul A. Olson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olson, Paul A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comedy.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Humor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Soul of the age!" Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, "He was not of an age but for all time." That he was both "of the age" and "for all time" is, this book suggests, the key to Shakespeare's comic genius. In this engaging introduction to the First Folio comedies, Paul A. Olson gives a persuasive and thoroughly engrossing account of the playwright's comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness-on par with epic and tragedy.
- Contents:
- On historical understandings of Shakespeare's works
- Shakespeare and the invention of grand comic form
- Shakespearean comedic myths
- Biblical story and festival enter Shakespearean comedy
- Empire and conquest in the comedies
- Measure for measure as form, myth, and Scripture.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-332) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611958527
- 9781281958525
- 1281958522
- 9780803219472
- 0803219474
- OCLC:
- 312983969
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