Shakespeare's comic theory.
Subtitle: A study of art and artifice in the last plays.
Series: De proprietatibus litterarum.; 57
Publisher: Mouton
Published: 1973
Place of publication: The Hague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragicomedies.; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Description: Building on a foundation of defined terminology and the critical ambience of Shakespearean comedy, Thomas Nelson proceeds to demonstrate through a detailed discussion of Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest his controlling thesis, that, contrary to a modern propensity for reductive systemization, "Shakespeare was not as interested as his readers in employing his plays as pegs on which to hang a series of 'meanings' in the traditional sociological, psychological, moral, or religious sense..." -- from book jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [90]-93.