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Shakespeare and the comedy of enchantment / Kent Cartwright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cartwright, Kent, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comedy.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Comedies.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Explores the extent to which Shakespeare's comedies resist empirical rationalism and resolution, despite that rationalism seeming to be the wished-for ending in plays that turn around magical, mystical, and inexplicable events.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Clowns, fools, and folly
- Structural doubleness and repetition
- Place, being, and agency
- The manifestation of desire
- The return from the dead
- Ending and wondering.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-263965-X
- 0-19-190534-8
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