A natural perspective
Subtitle: the development of Shakespearean comedy and romance
By: Northrop Frye ; [with a foreword by Stanley Cavell].
Series: Bampton lectures in America ;; no. 15
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies.
Description: 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.