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The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy. by Foster, Verna A.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Name of Tragicomedy: Problems of Identity -- 2 Early English Tragicomedy: From Providential Design to Metatheatre -- 3 Shakespearean Tragicomedy -- Measure for Measure: The Duke's Problem Play versus Shakespeare's Tragicomedy -- The Winter's Tale: Tragicomedy of Wonder -- 4 The Tragicomedy of Sexuality and Surprise: Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger -- Sexuality and Tragicomic Genre in the Plays of Fletcher -- The Moral Tragicomedy of Massinger -- 5 Tragicomedy in Transition -- 6 Modern Tragicomedy I: Tragicomedy and Realism -- Ibsen: The Wild Duck -- Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard -- Synge: The Playboy of the Western World -- O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock -- Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire -- 7 Modern Tragicomedy II: Metatheatre and the Absurd -- Beckett: Waiting for Godot -- Ionesco: The Chairs and The Killer -- Pinter: The Caretaker and No Man's Land -- Conclusion: The Nature of Tragicomedy -- Select Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Celestina by Rojas, Fernando de, -1541

Subjects: “…Tragicomedy.…”
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Celestina by Rojas, Fernando de, -1541

Subjects: “…Tragicomedy.…”
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Modern tragicomedy and the British tradition / by Dutton, Richard, 1948-

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Five plays; comedies and tragicomedies / by García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936

Shakespearean romance. by Felperin, Howard

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies.…”
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Beyond tragedy : structure & experience in Shakespeare's romances by Uphaus, Robert W.

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies.…”
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One-Hour Shakespeare : the Tragicomedies. by Lawrence-Edsell, Julie Fain

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Reconsidering Shakespeare's 'Lateness' : Studies in the Last Plays. by Chen, Xing (English teacher)

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies.…”
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Crown Of Life - Wilson Knight. by Wilson Knight, G.

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies.…”
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Shakespeare's romances reconsidered

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies. sh 85121054…”

Later Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare and the grammar of forgiveness by Beckwith, Sarah, 1959-

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies.…”
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Eternal bonds, true contracts : law and nature in Shakespeare's problem plays by Harmon, A. G., 1962-

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies.…”
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The Tempest by Shakespeare, William

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Reality and the heroic pattern ; last plays of Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Sophocles. by Grene, David

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies. sh 85121054…”

Shakespeare : the dark comedies to the last plays : from satire to celebration by Foakes, R. A.

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies.…”
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The Tempest : a critical reader

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A natural perspective : the development of Shakespearean comedy and romance. by Frye, Northrop

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies. sh 85121054…”

The Tempest and late romances / Shakespeare on screen, The tempest and late romances

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Tragicomedies. sh 85121054…”

August : Osage County by Letts, Tracy, 1965-

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Sicilia!

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Theaters of pardoning by Meyler, Bernadette

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Louise Erdrich : Tracks, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves. by Madsen, Deborah L.

Table of Contents: “…So, a priest walks into a reservation tragicomedy : humor in The plague of doves /…”
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Queer philologies : sex, language, and affect in Shakespeare's time by Masten, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…When Genres Breed: "Mongrell Tragicomedie" and Queer Kinship --…”
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The sad comedy of Èlʹdar Riazanov : an introduction to Russia's most popular filmaker by MacFadyen, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""Tragicomedy""; ""1 Psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union""; ""Ideology""; ""2 Ideology versus Diffidence, Not Dissidence""; ""3 Ideology Faces the Horrors of Its Opposite""; ""Sadness""; ""4 The Difficult Birth of Tragicomedy""; ""5 Can Materialism Be Challenged by Melancholy?""…”
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Shakespeare's fathers and daughters by Davies, Oliver Ford

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Early plays -- Comedies -- Tragedies and tragicomedies -- Late plays -- Shakespeare and his daughters -- Fathers and daughters in contemporary society -- Fathers and daughters in drama 1585-1620 -- Conclusion.…”

Tragicomic redemptions : global economics and the early modern English stage by Forman, Valerie

Table of Contents: “…Stasis and insularity in The merchant of Venice and Twelfth night -- The voyage out: Pericles -- Poverty, surplus value, and theatrical investment in The winter's tale -- Captivity and "free" trade: Fletcher's The island princess and English commerce in the East Indies in the early 1600s -- Balance, circulation, and equity in the "prosperous voyage" of The renegado -- Webster's The devil's law-case, the limits of tragicomic redemption, and tragicomedy's afterlife.…”
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Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery by Carpio, Glenda

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt; 2 The Conjurer Recoils: Slavery in Richard Pryor's Performances and Chappelle's Show; 3 Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada; 4 "A Comedy of the Grotesque": Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the Iconography of Slavery; 5 The Tragicomedy of Slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's Early Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Rhetoric and Power : the drama of classical Greece by Crick, Nathan

Table of Contents: “…Homer's Iliad and the epic tradition of heroic eloquence -- Heraclitus and the revelation of logos -- Aeschylus's Persians and the birth of tragedy -- Protagoras and the promise of politics -- Gorgias's Helen and the powers of action and fabrication -- Thucydides and the political history of power -- Aristophanes's Birds and the corrective of comedy -- Plato's Protagoras and the art of tragicomedy -- Isocrates's "Nicocles" and the hymn to hegemony -- Aristotle on rhetoric and civilization.…”
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Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery by Carpio, Glenda

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt -- The conjurer recoils : slavery in Richard Pryor's performances and Chappelle's Show -- Conjuring the mysteries of slavery : voodoo, fetishism, and stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada -- "A comedy of the grotesque" : Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the iconography of slavery -- The tragicomedy of slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's early plays.…”
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Rethinking Shakespeare's political philosophy : from Lear to Leviathan by Schulman, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part I Shakespearean Antiquity ; 1 The Birth of Tragicomedy (in the defeat of Hector by Ulysses); 2 Pagan Christs: Politics in the Roman Plays; Part II Shakespearean Modernity; 3 King Lear and the State of Nature; 4 Shakespeare's Novus Ordo Seclorum: Freedom and Authority in the English Histories; 5 Shakespeare and the Theological-Political Problem; Epilogue: Brave New Worlds; NOTES; Index.…”
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Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage by Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: seduction, resistance, and redemption : "turning Turk" and the embodiment of Christian faith -- Dangerous fellowship : universal faith and its bodily limits in The comedy of errors and Othello -- Recycled models : Catholic martyrdom and embodied resistance to conversion in The virgin martyr and other Red Bull plays -- Engendering faith : sexual defilement and spiritual redemption in The renegado -- "Reforming" the Knights of Malta : male chastity and temperance in five early modern plays -- Epilogue : turning miscegenation into tragicomedy (or not) : Robert Greene's Orlando furioso.…”
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Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience by Berger, Peter L., 1929-2017

Table of Contents: “…Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments -- The Comic Intrusion -- Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy -- Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude -- Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology -- Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic -- Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor -- The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor -- The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy -- The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit -- The Comic as Weapon: Satire -- Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly -- The Folly of Redemption -- Interlude: On Grim Theologians -- The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence.…”
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Comedy of sir william davenant. by Collins, Howard Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Comedy in Davenant's Tragedies and Tragicomedies; Albovine, King of the Lombards; The Cruel Brother; The Siege; The Just Italian; Love and Honour; The Platonick Lovers; The Unfortunate Lovers; The Fair Favourite; The Distresses; The First Day's Entertainment at Rutland House; V. …”
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1611 : Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England. by Wilcox, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Jonson's Oberon and friends: masque and music in 1611 -- Aemilia Lanyer and the "first fruits" of women's wit -- Coryats Crudities and the "travelling Wonder" of our age -- Time, tyrants and the question of authority: The Winter's Tale and related drama -- "Expresse words": Lancelot Andrewes and the sermons and devotions of 1611 -- The Roaring Girl on and off stage -- "The New World of Words": authorising translation in 1611 -- Donne's "Anatomy" and the commemoration of women: "Her death hath taught us dearely" -- Vengeance and virtue: The Tempest and the triumph of tragicomedy -- Conclusion: "This scribling age."…”
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The first modern Jew : Spinoza and the history of an image by Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Spinoza's Jewish modernities -- Ex-Jew, eternal Jew: early representations of the Jewish Spinoza -- Refining Spinoza : Moses Mendelssohn's response to the Amsterdam heretic -- The first modern Jew : Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the beginnings of an image -- A rebel against the past, a revealer of secrets : Salomon Rubin and the east European Maskilic Spinoza -- From the heights of Mount Scopus : Yosef Klausner and the Zionist rehabilitation of Spinoza -- Farewell, Spinoza : I.B. Singer and the tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist -- Epilogue : Spinoza Redivivus in the twenty-first century.…”
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Lands by Antler

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Double diaspora in Sephardic literature : Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 / Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 by Wacks, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Note on translation -- Introduction -- Diaspora studies for Sephardic culture -- Allegory and romance in diaspora: Jacob ben Elazar's book of tales -- Poetry in diaspora: from al-Andalus to Provence and back to Castile -- The anxiety of vernacularization: Shem Tov ben Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión's Proverbios morales and debate between the pen and the scissors -- Diaspora as tragicomedy: Vidal Benvenist's Efer and Dina -- Empire and diaspora: Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah and Joseph Karo's Magid Meisharim -- Reading Amadis in Constantinople: Spanish fiction in the key of diaspora -- Conclusion.…”
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Graham Greene : Fictions, Faith and Authorship. by Brennan, Michael G.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Writer in Search of a Career: 1923-1929; Chapter 2 The Man of Letters: 1930-1935; Chapter 3 The Making of a Literary Reputation: 1936-1938; Chapter 4 Missionary Zeal and the Established Writer: 1939-1943; Chapter 5 The Certainty of Doubt: 1944-1954; Chapter 6 The Writer in Search of New Directions: 1955-1965; Chapter 7 The Disguise of Tragicomedy: 1966-1973; Chapter 8 The Self-Reflective Writer: 1974-1991; Notes; Bibliography; Index; eCopyright.…”
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