Shakespeare's Comic Changes: The Time-Lapse Metaphor as Plot Device

Author/Contributor(s):	Cox, Roger L
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	07/15/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Cox argues that the thread connecting almost all of Shakespeare's comedies is a plot in which character change is presented metaphorically instead of realistically. Violating classical dramatic rules about the consistency of character, Shakespeare offers character changes that are improbable and unrealistic.