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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... 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 98 114 125 146 165 179 203 221 ...
... it are clear even in the adaptation of Plautus that he shaped into The Comedy of Errors, and it took a major leap forward with the denouement of Love's Labor's Lost. Thereafter, in such plays as A 10 Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy.
... 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 thereafter; but more than either of the other two plays it makes its assault ...
... themselves the charity to forgive and accept. When a union like this can be presented convincingly, we are reassured indeed. 4 Love's Labor's Lost Superficially Love's Labor's Lost provides less The Two Gentlemen of Verona 39.
J. A. BryantJr. 4 Love's Labor's Lost Superficially Love's Labor's Lost provides less reassurance than either The Comedy of Errors or The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The play abounds in lovers, but none of them at the end has found a mate ...
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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 |