Shakespeare's Pastoral Comedy

ISBN: 0807871508

Author: McFarland, Thomas

Condition: New

About the Author Thomas McFarland taught English literature in the Graduate Division of the City University of New York. He is author of nine books, including Tragic Meaning in Shakespeare and Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition. Product Description McFarland presents a personal theory of comedy that shows a knowledge ofcomic theory and practice, the origin and nature of the comic vision, thepastoral elegy, and the golden age. He deftly draws together the variouselements and shows how the blending of the pastoral with thecomic allows the inclusion of religious concerns to be a natural part ofwhat is originally a socially oriented art form.