William Shakespeare Romances / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Tragicomedies.

Shakespeare, William.

Tragicomedy--History and criticism.

Tragicomedy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well have fascinated scholars for centuries for, among other aspects, the ways they resist an obvious genre classification. While these stories of love and familial recognition bear elements of romantic conflict, Shakespeare integrated aspects of the comedic and tragic as well in these complex works. Renowned Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom introduces this volume of critical essays about the Bard and his romantic plays, and a chronology of his life, a bibliography, and an index will be helpful to researchers.

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Shakespeare's romances: The winter's tale / Northrop Frye

Cymbeline: the rescue of the king / Ruth Nevo

The crime and conversion of Leontes in The winter's tale / René Girard

Virtue, vice, and compassion in Montaigne and The tempest / Arthur Kirsch

"Near akin": the trials of friendship in The two noble kinsmen / Alan Stewart

Troilus and Cressida / W.H. Auden

The consolation of romance: providence in Shakespeare's late plays / Richard Harp

In the shadow of Hamlet: comedy and death in All's well that ends well / Alexander Leggatt.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4381-3601-3

OCLC:

708568211