Shakespeare & the Uses of ComedyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1986 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. |
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Shakespeares Exploration of the Human Comedy | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 14 |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 27 |
Loves Labors Lost | 40 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 57 |
The Merchant of Venice | 81 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 98 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 114 |
As You Like It | 146 |
Twelfth Night | 165 |
Troilus and Cressida | 179 |
Alls Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure | 203 |
Cymbeline and The Winters Tale | 221 |
The Tempest | 233 |
Notes | 253 |
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