J.F. Bernard

Shakespearean Melancholy

Philosophy, Form, and the Transformation of Comedy

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Produktbeschreibung

This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare's comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781474462716
• ISBN-10: 1474462715
• Artikelnr.: 58481118

Autorenporträt

J.F. Bernard teaches in the English department at Champlain College, Canada. He specializes in Renaissance drama and its philosophical, cultural, and social points of intersection. He is also interested in ideas of cultural production, adaptions and storytelling, particularly at it relates to contemporary engagements with Shakespeare's plays. He was the project coordinator for the city of Montreal's commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface
1. What's so Funny about Humours? Melancholy, Comedy and Revisionist Philosophy
2. Comic Symmetry and English Melancholy
3. Melancholic Dissonance and the Limits of Psycho-Humouralism
4. Melancholic Ambience at the Comic Close
5. Melancomic Time in Late Shakespeare
6. The Philosophical Afterlives of Shakespearean Melancholy
Works Cited
Index.