The myth of deliverance
reflections on Shakespeare's problem comedies
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Author
Publication
1983 - University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario
Language
English
Word Count
22,500 words, Guess
Page Count
90 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3261144M
- ISBN-100802065031
- OCLC Control Number9431069
- OCLC Control Numbermythofdeliveranc0000frye
- Library of Congress Control Number83181165
and 2 more
- Goodreads2875426
- LibraryThing274265
Classifications
- DDC822.3/3
- LCCPR2981 .F68 1983
Alternate Titles
- Problem comedies.
Description
In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career – the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience.In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida, showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.
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