Shakespeare and the comedy of enchantment /

Cartwright, Kent, 1943-

Shakespeare and the comedy of enchantment / Kent Cartwright. - First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (272 pages).

This volume explores the extent to which Shakespeare's comedies resist empirical rationalism and resolution, despite that rationalism seeming to be the wished-for ending in plays that turn around magical, mystical, and inexplicable events.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Comedies.


Magic in literature.
Comedy--History and criticism.

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