The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 716-717
Author(s):  
H. C. Erik Midelfort
Keyword(s):  
Robert Burton

Shakespearean Melancholy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
The Core ◽  
Robert Burton

What’s so funny about melancholy? Iconic as Hamlet is, Shakespearean comedy showcases an extraordinary reliance on melancholy that ultimately reminds us of the porous demarcation between laughter and sorrow. This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare’s comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and, conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy. In fashioning his own comic interpretation of the humour, Shakespeare distils an impressive array of philosophical discourses on the matter, from Aristotle to Robert Burton, and as a result, transforms the theoretical afterlife of both notions. The book suggests that the deceptively potent sorrow at the core of plays such as The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, or The Winter’s Tale influences modern accounts of melancholia elaborated by Sigmund Freud, Judith Butler, and others. What’s so funny about melancholy in Shakespearean comedy? It might just be its reminder that, behind roaring laughter, one inevitably finds the subtle pangs of melancholy.

scholarly journals Rebuttal to: Letter to the Editor by Robert Burton, in response to doi:10.1007/s10549-013-2794-5

2014 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-566
Author(s):  
Carolyn Nickson ◽  
Kate E Mason ◽  
Anne M. Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Robert Burton

Robert Burton 1621, 1632

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
R. M. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Robert Burton

Robert Burton and Joannes Pitseus

1910 ◽  
Vol s11-I (17) ◽  
pp. 325-326
Author(s):  
Edward Bensly
Keyword(s):  
Robert Burton
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