Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy

ISBN-13: 9780367886493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Jonathan Goossen

Opis

Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy presents an Aristotelian theory of comedy synthesized from recent discoveries in Poetics scholarship and applies it to comparative readings of four disparate comedies by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Dr. Jonathan Goossen evaluatates seminal works of early modern Engli

Spis treści

 

Introduction: Aristotle, Jonson, Shakespeare

Chapter 1: The Poetics and comedy

Part I

Chapter 2: Comic error and the hoax

Chapter 3: "Laid flat" in the "flame and height of their humours": Exposure in Jonson

Chapter 4: Shakespeare’s exposure of "seeming"

Part II

Chapter 5: Indignation Chapter 6: Jonson’s shifting "furor poeticus"

Chapter 7: "Kill Claudio": Indignation and pity in Shakespeare

Part III

Chapter 8: Catharsis

Chapter 9: "Checked by strength and clearness": Jonson’s comic catharsis

Chapter 10: The "strange course" of Shakespeare’s comic catharsis 

Conclusion

Bibliography

O autorze

Jonathan Goossen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.