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## The Spirit of Shakespearean Comedy In tragedy he often writes with a great appearance of toil and study, what is written at last with little felicity; but in his comick scenes, he seems to produce without labour, what no labour can improve. In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick, but in comedy he seems to repose, or to luxuriate, as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature. In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct. That was what Dr Johnson wrote about Shakespeare when he was preparing his edition of the plays in I 765. It is not what we should expect to hear from a modem editor or, for that matter, from many people who enjoy Shakespeare, who read him and go to see the plays in the theatre today. In fact I have the impression that Shakespeare's comedies-the 'straight' comedies, not the so-called problem plays like Measure for Measure, or the final plays like The Winter's Tale -are an embarrassment to his admir

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Author

Patrick Swinden (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333144282

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, American Poetry