LEADER 02433nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910782608003321 005 20230721005141.0 010 $a1-281-95852-2 010 $a9786611958527 010 $a0-8032-1947-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720175 035 $a(EBL)452175 035 $a(OCoLC)312983969 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000110807 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139035 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110807 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10065477 035 $a(PQKB)10032514 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC452175 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11891 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL452175 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312897 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195852 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720175 100 $a20080529d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond a common joy$b[electronic resource] $ean introduction to Shakespearean comedy /$fPaul A. Olson 210 $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (364 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-1574-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-332) and index. 327 $aOn historical understandings of Shakespeare's works -- Shakespeare and the invention of grand comic form -- Shakespearean comedic myths -- Biblical story and festival enter Shakespearean comedy -- Empire and conquest in the comedies -- Measure for measure as form, myth, and Scripture. 330 $a"Soul of the age!" Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, "He was not of an age but for all time." That he was both "of the age" and "for all time" is, this book suggests, the key to Shakespeare's comic genius. In this engaging introduction to the First Folio comedies, Paul A. Olson gives a persuasive and thoroughly engrossing account of the playwright's comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness-on par with epic and tragedy. 606 $aComedy 615 0$aComedy. 676 $a822.3/3 700 $aOlson$b Paul A$0195099 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782608003321 996 $aBeyond a common joy$93692595 997 $aUNINA