In 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. In 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 peripeteia, to analyse the
three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': Measure for
Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida,
showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final
period.
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