Shakespeare and his Comedies

ISBN-13: 9780415850582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str.

John Russell Brown

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First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962.

The originality, vitality and variety of Shakespeare's comedies do not suggest a writer at ease with a formula which works to his own satisfaction and the pleasure of his audience; against first impressions they suggest an artist seeking to express an idea which is always eluding a completely developed presentation. The second edition of this book contains an extensive new chapter on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.

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Chapter I CHAPTER I The Implicit Judgement; Chapter II Chapter II Experiments in Comedy; Chapter III CHAPTER III Love's Wealth and the Judgement of The Merchant of Venice; Chapter IV Chapter IV Love's Truth and the Judgements of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing; Chapter V CHAPTER V Love's Order and the Judgement of As You Like It; Chapter VI Chapter VI Twelfth Night or What You Will; Chapter VII Chapter VII Love's Ordeal and the Judgements of All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida; Chapter VIII Chapter VIII The Criticism of Shakespeare's Early and Mature Comedies; Chapter IX Chapter IX The Life of the Last Comedies;

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John Russell Brown