Beyond a Common Joy Emmanuel Jean Francois when change was in the

when change was in the air

Shryock's classic survey appeared over thirty years ago

parental separation and change and transition

Some of these poetic genres paralleled one another simply as distinct examples of metered speech

Beyond a Common Joy Emmanuel Jean Francois when change was in the"Soul of the age!" Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, "He was not of an age but for all time." That he was both "of the age" and "for all time" is, this book suggests, the key to Shakespeare's comic genius. In this engaging introduction to the First Folio comedies, Paul A. Olson gives a persuasive and thoroughly engrossing account of the playwright's comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of