Initially a project aimed at understanding
Shakespeares so-called problem plays, this study evolved
into focusing more generally and comparatively on plays
where the exploratory dramatic strategy involves distancing
from comedy or tragedy and yet a vital relationship with the
normative genre. It is a study of Shakespeare among others
whose explorations are located in the territory of generic
tension - starting almost at the historical beginning of
European drama with Euripides and including Ibsen,...