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,...
Initially a project aimed at understanding Shakespeares so-called problem plays, this study evolved into focusing more...