A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: 0015 (Bampton Lectures in America) - Softcover

Frye, Northrop

 
9780231082716: A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: 0015 (Bampton Lectures in America)
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ISBN 10: 0231082711 ISBN 13: 9780231082716
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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In A Natural Perspective, distinguished critic Northrop 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. Rather than comment only on individual plays, Frye treats the comedies as a group unified by recurrent structures, devices, and images: the storm at sea, the identical twins, the heroine disguised as a boy, the retreat into the forest, the heroine with a mysterious father.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0231082711
ISBN 13 
9780231082716
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
186

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