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Shakespeare and the uses of comedy

J. A. Bryant (Author)
In Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy. Once the reader recognizes that justification for such an assumption is presented repeatedly in the earlier comedies -- from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night -- he has less difficulty in dispensing with the currently fashionable classifications of the later comedies as problem plays and romances or tragicomedies and thus in seeing them all as manifestations of a single impulse. Bryant shows how Shakespeare, early a
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University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, ©1986
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Shakespeare's exploration of the human comedy
The comedy of errors
The two gentlemen of Verona
Love's labor's lost
A midsummer night's dream
The merchant of Venice
The taming of the shrew
The merry wives of Windsor
Much ado about nothing
As you like it
Twelfth night
Troilus and Cressida
All's well that ends well and Measure for measure
Cymbeline and The winter's tale
The tempest
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