A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance

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Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965 - Drama - 159 pages
Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances-- Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career.

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Contents

Mouldy Tales
1
Making Nature Afraid
34
The Triumph of Time
72
Copyright

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About the author (1965)

Herman Northrop Frye was born in 1912 in Quebec, Canada. His mother educated him at home until the fourth grade. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he studied theology at Emmanuel College for several years and actually worked as a pastor before deciding he preferred the academic life. He eventually obtained his master's degree from Oxford, and taught English at the University of Toronto for more than four decades. Frye's first two books, Fearful Symmetry (1947) and Anatomy of Criticism (1957) set forth the influential literary principles upon which he continued to elaborate in his numerous later works. These include Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology, The Well-Tempered Critic, and The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. Frye died in 1991.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance
Volume 71 of A Harbinger book
Volume 15 of Bampton Lectures
Issue 15 of Bampton lectures in America, ISSN 0067-3129
Harvest books
AuthorNorthrop Frye
PublisherHarcourt, Brace & World, 1965
Original fromNorthwestern University
DigitizedJan 27, 2011
ISBN0156654148, 9780156654142
Length159 pages
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Drama / Shakespeare
Literary Criticism / Drama
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
  
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