Shakespeare's Comic TheoryThomas Allen Nelson
Shakespeare's Comic Theory
Thomas Allen Nelson · 1972
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About the book
Building on a foundation of defined terminology and the critical ambience of Shakespearean comedy, Thomas Nelson proceeds to demonstrate through a detailed discussion of Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest his controlling thesis, that, contrary to a modern propensity for reductive systemization, "Shakespeare was not as interested as his readers in employing his plays as pegs on which to hang a series of 'meanings' in the traditional sociological, psychological, moral, or religious sense..." -- from book jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 1972
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Walter De Gruyter Inc
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9783108002817
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