Shakespearian Comedy

action Antonio appears artistic audience become beginning blood bond brings called character circumstance claim comedy comes comic common course criticism dramatic dramatist effect Elizabethan English existence experience eyes fact faith Falstaff feeling fellows figure give hand happiness hath heart hero heroines honour human ideal imagination instance instinct intuition Italy John kind King lady least less live lost lovers man's manner material matter means Measure mere merely mind mood moral nature never once particular passion perhaps Plautus play plot present problem reason romantic scene secure seems seen sense sentiment Shakespeare Shrew Shylock situation social society sort spirit stage story Taming thee things thou thought tion tradition tragedy Troilus turn values virtue wooing worth young