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A NATURAL PERSPECTIVE
The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance
NORTHROP FRYE
Dr. Frye considers the comedies as a single group unified
by recurring images and structural devices. He leads the reader
from the characteristics of the individual play to a considera–
tion of the comic form itself and its place
in
literature.
"It
is only rarely that one can say O'f a practitiO'ner that he can–
not safely be left unread. But one has to' say it of Frye."–
N ew York Review of Books
$8.75
THE LYRIC AND DRAMATIC MILTON
Selected Papers from the English Institute
JOSEPH H. SUMMERS, Editor
The current Milton revival has been largely concerned
until now with the great epic,
Paradise Lost.
These six essays
emphasize instead Milton's first volume of poems and
SamsMl
Agonistes.
Taken together, these essays illuminate Milton's
achievements as both a lyric and dramatic poet.
Just published $5.00
SHAKESPEARE AND THE COMEDY OF FORGIVENESS
ROBERT GRAMS HUNTER
This volume is a critical assessment of six O'f Shakespeare's
later comedies and an examination of how these plays are
closely related to one another in theme and structure.
Pr0-
fessor Hunter shows that these comedies, which all end
with
the forgiveness of an erring protagonist, fO'llow the tradition
of the medieval mystery play-a form that Hunter calls the
"cO'medy of fO'rgiveness."
Just published $6.50
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