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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807353803321

Autore

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

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1986

ISBN

0-8131-3095-6

0-8131-6148-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

822.3/3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [253]-265.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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