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Peter G. Phialas. Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies. The Development of Their Form and Meaning. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966. xvi+314 pp. $7.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David L. Stevenson
David L. Stevenson*
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Hunter College, The City University of New York
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Summer 1968 , pp. 224 - 226
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1968

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1 How can Rosalind and Viola be said to transcend Beatrice? Beatrice and Benedick carry the dramatization of romantic love dangerously close to the psychological questionings of reality. Rosalind in Arden and Viola in Illyria inhabit landscapes about as far from reality as that traversed by Spenser's Una. Moreover there is surely an intended febrile quality in Orsino's, Olivia's, and Viola's obsession with love. It is a quality lacking in the other comedies and unexplained by some ideal sequence in which they may have been written.