Beyond a Common Joy

An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy

Autor: Paul A. Olson

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Editura: University of Nebraska Press

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'Soul of the age!' Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, 'He was not of an age b...

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Autor

Paul A. Olson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

364

EAN

9780803215740

Enbook ID

04922439

Editura

University of Nebraska Press

Greutate

685

Dimensiuni

153 x 229 x 33

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'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.

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