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Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy by Jonathan Goossen is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle’s dramatic theory to the comedy of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Typically, scholars of Renaissance drama have treated Aristotle’s theory only as a possible historical influence on Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s drama, focusing primarily on their tragedies. Yet recent classical scholarship has undone important misconceptions about Aristotle’s <i>Poetics</i> held by early modern commentators and fleshed out
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- Author
- Jonathan Goossen
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781315159140
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Performing Arts, Shakespeare
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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