J.F. Bernard

Broschiertes Buch

Shakespearean Melancholy

Philosophy, Form, and the Transformation of Comedy

Beschreibung

This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare's comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.

Autor

J.F. Bernard teaches in the English department at Champlain College, Canada. He specializes in Renaissance drama and its philosophical, cultural, and social points of intersection. He is also interested in ideas of cultural production, adaptions and storytelling, particularly at it relates to contemporary engagements with Shakespeare's plays. He was the project coordinator for the city of Montreal's commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781474462716
• ISBN-10: 1474462715
• Artikelnr.: 58481118