Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy by Jonathan Goossen
Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle’s dramatic theory to the comedy of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Typically, scholars of Renaissance drama have treated Aristotle’s theory only as a possible historical influence on Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s drama, focusing primarily on their tragedies. Yet recent classical scholarship has undone important misconceptions about Aristotle’s Poetics held by early modern commentators and fleshed out the theory of comedy latent within it. By first synthesizing these developments and then treating them as an interpretive theory, rather than simply an historical influence, this book demonstrates a remarkable consonance between Aristotelian principles of plot and its emotional effect, on the one hand, and the comedy of Shakespeare and Jonson, on the other. In doing so, it also reveals surprising similarities between these seemingly divergent dramatists.
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Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare
- Ineffable Bodies
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Imperial Concerns in Early Modern Drama
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Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare
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The Death of Hamlet
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Shakespeare’s Exiles
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Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Rival Poet
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Genre in Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies
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Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women
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Memory in Shakespeare's Histories
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Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas
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Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings
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Shakespearean Recognitions
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Histrionic Hamlet
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Shakespeare, Dramatic Poetry and Value
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Shakespeare’s Mirrors
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Reinventing Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy
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Shakespeares Props
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Shakespeare in Hate
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SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION
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Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference
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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse
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Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book
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Casual Shakespeare
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Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism
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Shakespeare's Law
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Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others
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New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare
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Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults
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Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising
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Shakespeare's Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare
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Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange
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Shakespeare s Asian Journeys
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Shakespeare and Asia
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Shakespeare's Great Tragedies
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Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study
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The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Suicides
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Crossing Gender in Shakespeare
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781138710184 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138710180 |
| Title | Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy |
| Author | Jonathan Goossen |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Shakespeare |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2017-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 218 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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