A natural perspective

Northrop Frye

first published 1965 Sanshū-sha, 1987 241 pages

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In A Natural Perspective, distinguished critic Northrop Frye maintains that Shakespeare's comedy is widely misunderstood and underestimated, and that the four romances - Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest - are the inevitable culmination of the poet's career. Rather than comment only on individual plays, Frye treats the comedies as a group unified by recurrent structures, devices, and images: th...

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A natural perspective edition · 1995 · Columbia University Press · 159 pages
Sheikusupia kigeki to romansu no hatten. edition · 1987 · Sanshū-sha · 241 pages
Natural Perspective edition · 1969 · Harvest/HBJ Book · 160 pages

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