The Myth of Deliverance - Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies

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.

About the author

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his death. His works include Words with Power and Anatomy of Criticism.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Northrop Frye
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1993
• EAN: 9780802077813
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-7781-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 180 g
• Series: Heritage; HERITAGE
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies