The Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy
Alexander Leggatt (Editor)
An accessible, wide-ranging, and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited
Print Book, English, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2002
Handbooks and manuals
xviii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
9780521770446, 9780521779425, 9780511998577, 9786610158997, 0521770440, 0521779421, 0511998570, 6610158991
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Preface; Chronology; Part I. Shakespeare and Comic Tradition: 1. Theories of comedy David Galbraith; 2. Roman comedy Robert S. Miola; 3. Italian stories on the stage Louis George Clubb; 4. Elizabethan comedy Janette Dillon; 5. Popular festivity François Laroque; Part II. Shakespearean Comedy: 6. Forms of confusion John Creaser; 7. Love and courtship Catherine Bates; 8. Laughing at 'others' Edward Berry; 9. Comedy and sex Alexander Leggatt; 10. Language and comedy Lynne Magnusson; 11. Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender Barbara Hodgdon; 12. Matters of state Anthony Miller; 13. The experiment of romance Michael O'Connell; Select bibliography.
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