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Shakespeare's Pastoral Comedy

Buch | Softcover
228 Seiten
2009 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7150-8 (ISBN)
53,55 inkl. MwSt
Presents a personal theory of comedy which shows a wide knowledge of comic theory and practice, the origins and nature of the comic vision, the pastoral, the pastoral elegy, and the golden age. Thomas McFarland demonstrates how the blending of the pastoral with the comic allows the inclusion of religious concerns to be a natural part of what is initially a socially oriented art form.
Thomas McFarland presents a personal theory of comedy which shows a wide knowledge of comic theory and practice, the origins and nature of the comic vision, the pastoral, the pastoral elegy, and the golden age. He deftly draws together the various elements and demonstrates how the blending of the pastoral with the comic allows the inclusion of religious concerns to be a natural part of what is initially a socially oriented art form.



McFarland argues that Shakespeare's use of the pastoral is not just a fanciful game of veiled references to the court of Elizabeth but a strengthening and deepening of comedy itself. This process was possible because of a fundamental affinity between the realm of comedy and the realm of pastoral. As McFarland observes, ""The alliance of comedy and pastoral realizes what neither mode could adequately achieve by itself: the representation of paradise.""



Plays discussed include Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, As You Like It, A Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.

Thomas McFarland taught English literature in the Graduate Division of the City University of New York. He is author of nine books, including Tragic Meaning in Shakespeare and Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.10.2009
Verlagsort Chapel Hill
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 375 g
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
ISBN-10 0-8078-7150-8 / 0807871508
ISBN-13 978-0-8078-7150-8 / 9780807871508
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