The Myth of Deliverance : : Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies / / Northrop Frye.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Frye, Northrop,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hamilton, A.C.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. The Reversal of Action --; 2. The Reversal of Energy --; 3. The Reversal of Reality
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442664715; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442664715
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Northrop Frye.

In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career - the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience. In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': "Measure for Measure," "All's Well That Ends Well," and "Troilus and Cressida," showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.