Shakespearean Melancholy: Philosophy, Form and the Transformation of Comedy

ISBN-13: 9781474417334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 264 str.

J. F. Bernard

Opis

This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare's comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; 1. What’s so Funny about Humours? Melancholy, Comedy and Revisionist Philosophy; 2. Comic Symmetry and English Melancholy; 3. Melancholic Dissonance and the Limits of Psycho-Humouralism; 4. Melancholic Ambience at the Comic Close; 5. Melancomic Time in Late Shakespeare; 6. The Philosophical Afterlives of Shakespearean Melancholy; Works Cited; Index.