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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... father of the twins. Answering either question involves a reference to the traditional pattern and function of comedy, both of which require the displacement of the senex or parent, and a general recognition of the lovers as a pair ...
... father, Egeon, at that moment stands condemned to die before the sun sets. Moreover, the merchant tells Antipholus that a fellow Syracusan has been arrested in Ephesus that very day and will die if he cannot find money to pay the ...
... father, he might also have forestalled that epiphany in Act V, where not just two people are reunited and made happy, but everybody. Fate, fortune, chance, or providence—who can say? The ultimate mover of this complex Shakespearean ...
... father precipitously to send him off to Milan).” The differences, of course, between The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona are far more numerous and important than the few resemblances. None of the errors in the latter ...
... father brings everything to an indefinite halt. "Our wooing doth not end like an old play," says Berowne; "Jack hath not Gill” (Vii.874–75). And he will not be consoled. Moreover, the songs which were to have concluded the entertainment ...
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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 |