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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... the Shrew . The Merry Wives of Windsor . Much Ado about Nothing 10. . Twelfth Night 12. 13. 14. 15. 14 27 40 57 81 98 114 125 146 165 179 203 221 233 253 266 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments It is a pleasure Contents.
... wife Alcmene. The real question to ask, therefore, is not why Shakespeare doubled the Dromios but why he added this particular device from the Amphitruo, especially since he was not free, Elizabethan taste in marital comedy being what ...
... wife abhor. But her fair sister, Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace, Of such enchanting presence and discourse. Hath almost made me traitor to myself; But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong, I'll stop mine 16 Shakespeare and ...
... wife of Menaechmus I he found Adriana, still a devoted wife, understandably impatient with things that upset the household routine but eager to go to almost any length to please her spouse, old enough to be capable of jealousy and ...
... wife, he does promise her a chain in order to demonstrate that affection, and he conscientiously tries to make good on that promise. Moreover, it really is a business matter that makes him late on the fateful day of 20 Shakespeare and ...
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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 |