The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies : : Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear / / Susan Snyder.
Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in...
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Snyder, Susan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies : Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear / Susan Snyder. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019] ©1979 1 online resource (400 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 5339 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A World Elsewhere -- 2. Beyond Comedy: Romeo and Juliet and Othello -- 3. The Tragedy of Multiplicity: Hamlet -- 4. Between the Divine and the Absurd: King Lear -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in his tragic writing. She argues that Shakespeare's early mastery of romantic comedy deeply influenced his tragedies both in dramaturgy and in the expression and development of his tragic vision. From this perspective she sheds new light on Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear.The author shows Shakespeare's tragic vision evolving as he moves through three possibilities: comedy and tragedy functioning first as polar opposites, later as two sides of the same coin, and finally as two elements in a single compound.In the four plays examined here, Professor Snyder finds that traditional comic structures and assumptions operate in several ways to shape the tragedy: they set up expectations which when proven false reinforce the movement into tragic inevitability; they underline tragic awareness by a pointed irrelevance; they establish a point of departure for tragedy when comedy's happy assumptions reveal their paradoxical "shadow" side; and they become part of the tragedy itself when the comic elements threaten the tragic hero with insignificance and absurdity.Susan Snyder is Professor of English at Swarthmore College.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Comic, The. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691196626?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691196626 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691196626.jpg |
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