| A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance Contributor(s): Frye, Northrop (Author), Cavell, Stanley (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0231082711 ISBN-13: 9780231082716 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Drama - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 95157011 |
| Series: Bampton Lectures in America |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.42" W x 8" (0.51 lbs) 159 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |