Shakespeare and the Uses of ComedyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 15. 7. 2014 - 280 strán (strany) 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 and late, dutifully concerned himself with the production of laughter, the presentation of young people in love, and the exploitation of theatrical conventions that might provide a guaranteed response. Yet these matters were incidental to his main business in writing comedy: to examine the implications of an action in which human involvement in the process of living provides the kind of enlightenment that leads to renewal and the continuity of life. With rare foresight, Shakespeare presented a world in which women were as capable of enlightenment as the men who wooed them, and Bryant shows how the female characters frequently preceded their mates in perceiving the way of the world. In most of his comedies Shakespeare also managed to suggest the role of death in life's process; and in some—even in plays as diverse as A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and The Tempest—he gave hints of a larger process, one without beginning or end, that may well comprehend all our visions—of comedy, tragedy, and history—in a single movement. |
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... Gentlemen of Verona . Love's Labor's Lost . A Midsummer Night's Dream . The Merchant of Venice . The Taming of the Shrew . The Merry Wives of Windsor . Much Ado about Nothing 10. . Twelfth Night 12. 13. 14. 15. 14 27 40 57 81 98 114 125 ...
... Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Cymbeline) sometimes accounted for as a happy accident of a theater with only boys in it to play the women's parts, he developed concomitantly an ...
... which Shakespeare himself never seriously attempted until, approaching the end of his career, he wrote the last two acts of The Winter's Tale. 3 The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Gentlemen of 26 Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy.
J. A. BryantJr. 3 The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Gentlemen of Verona may well represent another kind of first excursion into the field of comedy. The Comedy of Errors is, after all, something that Shakespeare might have produced ...
... Gentlemen of Verona, like The Comedy of Errors (presumably earlier) and Love's Labor's Lost (presumably later), constitutes a serious assault on the domain of comedy and concludes with triumphs that Shakespeare was to make use of ...
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5 A Midsummer Nights Dream | 57 |
6 The Merchant of Venice | 81 |
7 The Taming of the Shrew | 98 |
8 The Merry Wives of Windsor | 114 |
10 As You Like It | 146 |
11 Twelfth Night | 165 |
12 Troilus and Cressida | 179 |
13 Alls Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure | 203 |
14 Cymbeline and The Winters Tale | 221 |
15 The Tempest | 233 |
Notes | 253 |
Index | 266 |