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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: better, blighting a full-blown expectation now to help the blossoming of a nobler one hereafter; and it so happens in the end that all the persons but two either have what they will, or else grow willing to have what comes to their hands.1 VIII. DRAMATIC CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT As a drama, Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's superb achievements in high comedy. The action of the play has mistaken identity as its motive, and three love stories make up the common entanglement of the main plot. Three varieties of humorous folly are inwoven in the subplot, and in the interaction of main plot and subplot is evolved a masterpiece of comic appeal, compact, symmetrical, and dramatically as effective as it is satisfying to the imagination. Like tragedy, comedy deals with a conflict between an individual force (which may be centered either in one character, or in a group of characters acting as one) and environing circumstances. In tragedy the individual (one person or a group) is overwhelmed; in comedy the individual triumphs. In comedy, as in tragedy, there are five stages in the plot development: (i) the exposition, or introduction; (2) the complication, rising action, or growth; (3) the climax, crisis, or turning point; (4) the resolution, falling action, or consequence; and (5) the de'nouement, castastrophe,2 or conclusion. 1 Some interpreters have suggested that the name expresses Shakespeare's carelessness as to his own production; others that it signified his farewell to Comedy; others again that it was a proof of his indifference in regard to the naming of his plays. 2 Catastrophe ? the change or revolution which produces the conclusion or final event of a dramatic piece. ? Johnson. Let it not be thought for a moment that each of these stages is clearl...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217412308 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217412300 |
| Weight | 0.13 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 7.44 x 0.05 x 9.69 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
| Publisher | Rarebooksclub.com |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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