Natural Perspective - The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance

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Northrop Frye. Foreword by Stanley Cavell

Summary

Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career.

Product details

• Authors: Northrop Frye, Frye Northrop
• Assisted by: Stanley Cavell (Editor), Cavell Stanley (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.1995
• EAN: 9780231082716
• ISBN: 978-0-231-08271-6
• No. of pages: 159
• Series: Bampton Lectures in America S.; Bampton Lectures in America; Bampton Lectures in America; Bampton Lectures in America S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean