Shakespeare: The Comedies

Shakespeare: The Comedies

Author: Ronald P. Draper
Category: Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780312227029
Format : Hardcover
Publisher : St. Martin's Press

  

For Shakespeare, the trials and tribulations of love become a subject for both laughter and sympathy, presented in a dramatic form that combines such diverse elements as high poetic imagination, intelligent criticism, and farcical popular entertainment. This complex image is presented to readers in this book through detailed analysis of extracts from the four major comedies--A Midsummer Night''s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It. Methods are explained and further work suggested to enhance reading of the plays, and they are related to the rest of Shakespeare''s works.