Title: A natural perspective
Subtitle: the development of Shakespearean comedy and romance
First published: 1965
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.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Comedies, Komödie, Comédies, Humorous plays, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, comedies, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, tragicomedies
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)