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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817561003321

Autore

Brown John Russell

Titolo

Shakespeare and his comedies / / John Russell Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-136-55600-1

0-415-33086-6

0-415-85058-4

1-315-01820-9

1-136-55593-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Comedies ; ; I

Routledge library editions. Shakespeare

Disciplina

256

Soggetti

English drama (Comedy) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1962.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Shakespeare and His Comedies; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Original Title Page ; Table of Contents ; Preface; I The Implicit Judgement; II Experiments in Comedy; III Love's Wealth and the Judgement of The Merchant of Venice; IV Love's Truth and the Judgements of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing; V Love's Order and the Judgement of As You Like It; VI Twelfth Night or What You Will; VII Love's Ordeal and the Judgements of All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida; VIII The Criticism of Shakespeare's early and mature Comedies

IX The Life of the last ComediesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962.<BR><BR>The originality, vitality and variety of Shakespeare's comedies do not suggest a writer at ease with a formula which works to his own satisfaction and the pleasure of his audience; against first impressions they suggest an artist seeking to express an idea which is always eluding a completely developed presentation. The second edition of this book contains an extensive new chapter on <EM>Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale</EM> and <EM>The Tempest.</EM>