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."