Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy by Bryant, J. a.

Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813156323)

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Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy by Bryant, J. a.

Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy

$25.00
Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy by Bryant, J. a.

Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: J. a. Bryant
ISBN-10: 0813156327
ISBN-13: 9780813156323
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d
By J. a. Bryant
By J. a. Bryant
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J.A. Bryant Jr., is professor of English at the University of Kentucky and author of other studies in comedy, including The Compassionate Satirist: Ben Jonson and His Imperfect World.

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