The Myth of Deliverance : Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies /

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In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career - the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience.In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frye, Northrop (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Toronto Press, [1993]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Comedies.
Comedie de Geneve
Komödie.
Peripetie.
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
All's well that ends well (Shakespeare)
Komedies.
Humorous plays.
Comedy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Comedie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career - the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience.In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida, showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.
Item Description:"Based on the Tamblyn lectures, given at the University of Western Ontario on 25, 26, and 27 March 1981"--Preface.
Physical Description:1 online resource (128 pages).
ISBN:9781442664715

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