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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • General Editors' Preface
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Name of Tragicomedy: Problems of Identity
  • 2 Early English Tragicomedy: From Providential Design to Metatheatre
  • 3 Shakespearean Tragicomedy
  • Measure for Measure: The Duke's Problem Play versus Shakespeare's Tragicomedy
  • The Winter's Tale: Tragicomedy of Wonder
  • 4 The Tragicomedy of Sexuality and Surprise: Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger
  • Sexuality and Tragicomic Genre in the Plays of Fletcher
  • The Moral Tragicomedy of Massinger
  • 5 Tragicomedy in Transition
  • 6 Modern Tragicomedy I: Tragicomedy and Realism
  • Ibsen: The Wild Duck
  • Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
  • Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
  • O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock
  • Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
  • 7 Modern Tragicomedy II: Metatheatre and the Absurd
  • Beckett: Waiting for Godot
  • Ionesco: The Chairs and The Killer
  • Pinter: The Caretaker and No Man's Land
  • Conclusion: The Nature of Tragicomedy
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.