Weighing Delight and Dole: A Study of Comedy, Tragedy, and AnxietyThis work establishes a concept of anxiety reduction which is applied to a discussion of the literature on comedy and tragedy in order to propose new definitions of these genres. The results of this theoretical treatment are then employed in analyses of works of Shakespeare, Schiller, Buchner, Lessing, Cary, De Vries and Kafka." |
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Page 117
... central one . The moderate , " rational " grief of Fortinbras is unworthy of tragedy and commensurate with Fortinbras's peripheral status . The violent turning to anger and revenge of Laertes relates to the issue of the wrong that ...
... central one . The moderate , " rational " grief of Fortinbras is unworthy of tragedy and commensurate with Fortinbras's peripheral status . The violent turning to anger and revenge of Laertes relates to the issue of the wrong that ...
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... central source for the overt situation of Minna . We will attempt to show here that it is complemented by an equally central , but highly disguised source : Plautus's 14 Amphitruo . Lessing devoted an earlier essay to an examination of ...
... central source for the overt situation of Minna . We will attempt to show here that it is complemented by an equally central , but highly disguised source : Plautus's 14 Amphitruo . Lessing devoted an earlier essay to an examination of ...
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... central sig- nificance for Lessing . But why should he have bothered to do this , if all he wanted were a few examples of laughter to strengthen the comic atmosphere ? These could have been ob- tained anywhere , or , considering his ...
... central sig- nificance for Lessing . But why should he have bothered to do this , if all he wanted were a few examples of laughter to strengthen the comic atmosphere ? These could have been ob- tained anywhere , or , considering his ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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