Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy

Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy presents an Aristotelian theory of comedy synthesized from recent discoveries in Poetics scholarship and applies it to comparative readings of four disparate comedies by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Dr. Jonathan Goossen evaluatates seminal works of early modern Engli

About the author

Jonathan Goossen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Summary

Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy presents an Aristotelian theory of comedy synthesized from recent discoveries in Poetics scholarship and applies it to comparative readings of four disparate comedies by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Dr. Jonathan Goossen evaluatates seminal works of early modern Engli

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Goossen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.12.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780367886493
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88649-3
• Pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, DRAMA / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Other performing arts, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, early modern literature, literary criticism methodology, classical poetics, Aristotelian comedy interpretation, Renaissance drama theory, dramatic emotion analysis, comic catharsis