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The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies

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The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies
The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies

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In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or , to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': , , and , showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.

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