Beyond a common joy :: an introduction to Shakespearean comedy /

"Soul of the age!" Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, "He was not of an age but for all time." That he was both "of the age" and "for all time" is, this book suggests, the key to Shakespeare's comic genius. In this engaging introduc...

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1. Verfasser: Olson, Paul A.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Zusammenfassung:"Soul of the age!" Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, "He was not of an age but for all time." That he was both "of the age" and "for all time" is, this book suggests, the key to Shakespeare's comic genius. In this engaging introduction to the First Folio comedies, Paul A. Olson gives a persuasive and thoroughly engrossing account of the playwright's comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness--on par with epic and tragedy
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-332) and index.
ISBN:9780803219472
0803219474
1281958522
9781281958525
9786611958527
6611958525

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