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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... worth as artists and as poets was the value to mankind of the peculiar and distinctive experience which they as poets had experienced and which they as poets had the art to communicate to men . Their merit , then , is their meaning , so ...
... worth as artists and as poets was the value to mankind of the peculiar and distinctive experience which they as poets had experienced and which they as poets had the art to communicate to men . Their merit , then , is their meaning , so ...
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... worth is . Scholarship must lead to criticism . But by his very scholarship an academic man knows how precarious are the judgments of the critics . Above all , he knows the properly repressive weight of knowledge . He realises that a ...
... worth is . Scholarship must lead to criticism . But by his very scholarship an academic man knows how precarious are the judgments of the critics . Above all , he knows the properly repressive weight of knowledge . He realises that a ...
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... worth : 1 the sixteenth century brought forth great 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 ...
... worth : 1 the sixteenth century brought forth great 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 ...
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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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