Beyond a common joy : an introduction to Shakespearean comedy

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Beyond a common joy : an introduction to Shakespearean comedy

Paul A. Olson

University of Nebraska Press, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-332) and index

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収録内容

  • On historical understandings of Shakespeare's works
  • Shakespeare and the invention of grand comic form
  • Shakespearean comedic myths
  • Biblical story and festival enter Shakespearean comedy
  • Empire and conquest in the comedies
  • Measure for measure as form, myth, and Scripture

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内容説明

"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.

目次

  • Preface
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps1. On Historical Understandings of Shakespeare's Works
  • 2. Shakespeare and the Invention of Grand Comic Form
  • 3. Shakespearean Comedic Myths
  • 4. Biblical Intertext and Biblical Holiday: Comedy and Sacred Story
  • 5. Comedy and Empire: The Comedy of Imperial Conquest
  • 6. Measure for Measure as Form, Myth, and Scripture
  • 7. And In Conclusion

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