Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment

Kent Cartwright's thought-provoking study of this dramatic kind is thus a welcome contribution to Shakespearean scholarship.

Auteur
Kent Cartwright is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of English of the University of Maryland. His teaching and scholarship have focused on sixteenth-century British literature, especially drama, and on late medieval British literature. He has also written on the status of the undergraduate English major. He has edited The Comedy of Errors, for The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series (Bloomsbury, 2017). His other books include Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response (Penn State University Press, 1991). He is editor of A Companion to Tudor Literature (Blackwell, 2010) and the author of numerous articles on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. He has served as president of the Association of Departments of English (USA) and as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.

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Explores the extent to which Shakespeare's comedies resist empirical rationalism and resolution, despite that rationalism seeming to be the wished-for ending in plays that turn around magical, mystical, and inexplicable events.

Contenu

• Introduction: Enchantment and Comedy

• 1: Clowns, Fools, and Folly

• 2: Structural Doubleness and Repetition

• 3: Place, Being, and Agency

• 4: The Manifestation of Desire

• 5: The Return from the Dead

• 6: Ending and Wondering

• Afterword