{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-uses-of-comedy-paperback","title":"Shakespeare and the Uses of Comedy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. A. Jr. Bryant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy. Once the reader recognizes that justification for such an assumption is presented repeatedly in the earlier comedies--from \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e--he has less difficulty in dispensing with the currently fashionable classifications of the later comedies as problem plays and romances or tragicomedies and thus in seeing them all as manifestations of a single impulse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBryant shows how Shakespeare, early and late, dutifully concerned himself with the production of laughter, the presentation of young people in love, and the exploitation of theatrical conventions that might provide a guaranteed response. Yet these matters were incidental to his main business in writing comedy: to examine the implications of an action in which human involvement in the process of living provides the kind of enlightenment that leads to renewal and the continuity of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith rare foresight, Shakespeare presented a world in which women were as capable of enlightenment as the men who wooed them, and Bryant shows how the female characters frequently preceded their mates in perceiving the way of the world. In most of his comedies Shakespeare also managed to suggest the role of death in life's process; and in some--even in plays as diverse as\u003ci\u003e A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e--he gave hints of a larger process, one without beginning or end, that may well comprehend all our visions--of comedy, tragedy, and history--in a single movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJ.A. Bryant Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, is professor of English at the University of Kentucky and author of other studies in comedy, including\u003ci\u003e The Compassionate Satirist: Ben Jonson and His Imperfect World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56257165787441,"sku":"9780813156323","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/CYuQbCbd9P9780813156323.webp?v=1789291416","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-the-uses-of-comedy-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}