{"product_id":"9780802077813","title":"The Myth Of Deliverance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career – the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or \u003cem\u003eperipeteia\u003c\/em\u003e, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': \u003cem\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAll's Well That Ends Well\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Cressida\u003c\/em\u003e, showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49791899271408,"sku":"9780802077813","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802077813","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}