Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on comedy /

• Main Author: Goossen, Jonathan (συγγραφέας)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Routledge, 2019.
• Series: Routledge studies in Shakespeare
• Subjects: Jonson, Ben, > 1573?-1637 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική.; Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Αριστοτέλης > 384-322 > Ποιητική; Κωμωδία > Ιστορία και κριτική.; Αγγλικό δράμα (Κωμωδία) > Ιστορία και κριτική.; Ποιητική

Table of Contents:

• The Poetics and comedy
• Comic error and the Hoax
• "Laid flat" in the "flame and height of their humours": exposure in Jonson
• Shakespeare's exposure of "seeming"
• Indignation
• Jonson's shifting "furor poeticus"
• "Kill Claudio": indignation and pity in Shakespeare
• Catharsis
• "Checked by strength and clearness": Jonson's comic catharsis
• The "strange course" of Shakespeare's comic catharsis conclusion: the "Comedy of Affliction."