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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, J. A. (Joseph Allen), 1919-1999, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Comedies.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Shakespeare and the uses of comedy.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Shakespeare's Exploration of the Human Comedy; 2. The Comedy of Errors; 3. The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 4. Love's Labor's Lost; 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 6. The Merchant of Venice; 7. The Taming of the Shrew; 8. The Merry Wives of Windsor; 9. Much Ado about Nothing; 10. As You Like It; 11. Twelfth Night; 12. Troilus and Cressida; 13. All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure; 14. Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale; 15. The Tempest; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [253]-265.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-5632-7

0-8131-3095-6

0-8131-6148-7

OCLC:

900345023