Title Shakespearean melancholy : philosophy, form, and the transformation of comedy / J.F. Bernard.

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Description	1 online resource
Series	Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy
	Edinburgh critical studies in Shakespeare and philosophy.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Intro; Half Title; Series; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Dedication; 1. What's so Funny about Humours? Melancholy, Comedy and Revisionist Philosophy; 2. Comic Symmetry and English Melancholy; 3. Melancholic Dissonance and the Limits of Psycho-Humoralism; 4. Melancholic Ambience at the Comic Close; 5. Melancomic Time in Late Shakespeare; 6. The Philosophical Afterlives of Shakespearean Melancholy; Works Cited; Index.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Melancholy in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: 1474417337 9781474417334 (OCoLC)1039935205
ISBN	9781474417341 (electronic bk.)
	1474417345 (electronic bk.)
	9781474417358
	1474417353
	9781474417334
	1474417337