Shakespeare and Comedy: Arden Critical Companions

by RobertMaslen (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $48.20

  Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy, invoking the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. This book asserts that Shakespeare's use of the comic mode is calculatedly unsettling, and that this is what makes it pleasurable.