TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryant,J.A.
TI  - Shakespeare and the uses of comedy
SN  - 9780813161488
AV  - PR2981 .B75 1986eb
U1  - 822.3/3 23
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Drama
KW  - Humorous plays
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Shakespeare's exploration of the human comedy -- The comedy of errors -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- Love's labor's lost -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- The taming of the shrew -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Much ado about nothing -- As you like it -- Twelfth night -- Troilus and Cressida -- All's well that ends well and Measure for measure -- Cymbeline and The winter's tale -- The tempest; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - In 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 The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night -- 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. Bryant shows how Shakespeare, early a
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