Shakespeare's agonistic comedy : poetics, analysis, criticism
"Shakespeare's Agonistic Comedy focuses on one of the three comic strategies deployed and explored by Shakespeare in his comedies from Errors to Twelfth Night: the essentially punitive strategy, which author G. Beiner labels "agonistic," and which is distinguished from the essentially reparative "comedy of love" as well as from the perspective of folly."
Print Book, English, ©1993
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, Rutherford, London, ©1993
Comedies
302 pages ; 24 cm
9780838634677, 0838634672
26356003
pt. 1. Poetics
1. Agon versus Comedy of Love: Structural Difference and Complementarity
2. Semi-agon and Comedy of Love: Clarifying the Boundary
3. The Agonistic Perspective: Reader/Spectator Response
4. Violence in the Comedy of Love, Errors to Twelfth Night: Referential and Thematic Patterns
5. Comic Revenge and Agons: Referential and Thematic Patterns Continued
pt. 2. The Major Texts
6. The Merry Wives of Windsor
7. The Merchant of Venice
8. Twelfth Night