Jonathan Goossen

Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy

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Produktbeschreibung

Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy presents an Aristotelian theory of comedy synthesized from recent discoveries in Poetics scholarship and applies it to comparative readings of four disparate comedies by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Dr. Jonathan Goossen evaluatates seminal works of early modern Engli

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780367886493
• ISBN-10: 0367886499
• Artikelnr.: 58482597

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Goossen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Aristotle, Jonson, Shakespeare
Chapter 1: The Poetics and comedy
Part I
Chapter 2: Comic error and the hoax
Chapter 3: "Laid flat" in the "flame and height of their humours": Exposure
in Jonson
Chapter 4: Shakespeare's exposure of "seeming"
Part II
Chapter 5: Indignation Chapter 6: Jonson's shifting "furor poeticus"
Chapter 7: "Kill Claudio": Indignation and pity in Shakespeare
Part III
Chapter 8: Catharsis
Chapter 9: "Checked by strength and clearness": Jonson's comic catharsis
Chapter 10: The "strange course" of Shakespeare's comic catharsis
Conclusion
Bibliography