Introduction: Aristotle, Jonson, Shakespeare
Chapter 1: The Poetics and comedy
Part I
Chapter 2: Comic error and the hoax
Chapter 3: "Laid flat" in the "flame and height of their humours": Exposure in Jonson
Chapter 4: Shakespeare’s exposure of "seeming"
Part II
Chapter 5: Indignation Chapter 6: Jonson’s shifting "furor poeticus"
Chapter 7: "Kill Claudio": Indignation and pity in Shakespeare
Part III
Chapter 8: Catharsis
Chapter 9: "Checked by strength and clearness": Jonson’s comic catharsis
Chapter 10: The "strange course" of Shakespeare’s comic catharsis
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Jonathan Goossen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
