9780803215740 - beyond a common joy: an introduction to shakespearean comedy von olson, paul a. (9 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. pp. xiv + 347 Figure, 16 Illus., 2 Maps.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 364 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Soul of the age!' Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, 'He was not of an age but for all time.' That he was both 'of the age' and 'for all time' is, this book suggests, the key to Shakespeare's comic genius. In this engaging introduction to the First Folio comedies, Paul A. Olson gives a persuasive and thoroughly engrossing account of the playwright's comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness-on par with epic and tragedy.Like the best tragic or epic writers, Shakespeare in his comedies goes beyond private and domestic matters in order to draw on the whole of the commonwealth. He examines how a ruler's or a court's community at the household and local levels shapes the politics of empire-existing or nascent empires such as England, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Venice, and the Ottoman Empire or part empires such as Rome and Athens-where all their suffering and silliness play into how they govern. In Olson's work we also see how Shakespeare's appropriation of his age's ideas about classical myth and biblical scriptures bring to his comic action a sort of sacral profundity in keeping with notions of poetry as 'inspired' and comic endings as more than merely happy but as, in fact, uncommonly joyful.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Offers an account of Shakespeare s comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness - on par with epic and tragedy.&Uumlber den.