Shakespearian ComedyFirst published in 1938. This is a survey of Shakepeare's comedies which illustrates the playwright's increasing grasp on the art and idea of comedy. Themes, characters and plays covered include: Romanticism in Shakespearian comedy; Shakespeare's Jew, Falstaff, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Dark Comedies. |
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... tragedy . Deliberately to invite such a com- parison is to call upon oneself the proper penalty for sheer arrogance : Bradley was one of the really great Shakespearian critics of the last half - century . There is no claim that this ...
... tragedy . Deliberately to invite such a com- parison is to call upon oneself the proper penalty for sheer arrogance : Bradley was one of the really great Shakespearian critics of the last half - century . There is no claim that this ...
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... tragedy . Rather , it was the method of Aristotle's enquiry , and the sum- mary exposition of that method which has come down to us imperfectly in the first four brief chapters of the Poetics . A philosopher with a bent for biological ...
... tragedy . Rather , it was the method of Aristotle's enquiry , and the sum- mary exposition of that method which has come down to us imperfectly in the first four brief chapters of the Poetics . A philosopher with a bent for biological ...
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... tragedy , arousing and appealing to pity and fear - this itself implies that each and all of these emotions are in the majority of men most readily and most mightily excited by the casual , multitudinous and inevit- able accidents of ...
... tragedy , arousing and appealing to pity and fear - this itself implies that each and all of these emotions are in the majority of men most readily and most mightily excited by the casual , multitudinous and inevit- able accidents of ...
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... tragedy , without assuming that either comedy or tragedy has yet reached perfection . Comedy , like tragedy , may be taken as a species because it is commonly recognized as such . History will reveal the consolidation of its specific ...
... tragedy , without assuming that either comedy or tragedy has yet reached perfection . Comedy , like tragedy , may be taken as a species because it is commonly recognized as such . History will reveal the consolidation of its specific ...
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... tragedy in one country only , and even there , only one Shakespeare . It is doubtless easier to see the movements in the growth of European tragedy than in the development of its comedy . Comedy is much more sensitive to topical circum ...
... tragedy in one country only , and even there , only one Shakespeare . It is doubtless easier to see the movements in the growth of European tragedy than in the development of its comedy . Comedy is much more sensitive to topical circum ...
Contents
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THE RECOIL FROM ROMANTICISM | 44 |
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW | 73 |
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 100 |
SHAKESPEARES JEW | 123 |
FALSTAFF | 161 |
THE DARK COMEDIES | 208 |
THE CONSUMMATION | 266 |
INDEX | 299 |
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