The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies /
[Book]
Penny Gay
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008
ix, 153 p. ;
24 cm
Cambridge introductions to literature
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150) and index
Introduction : comedy as idea and practice -- Farce : The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor -- Courtly lovers and the real world : Two gentlemen of Verona, A midsummer night's dream, The merchant of Venice -- Comedy and language : Love's labour's lost -- Romantic comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night -- Problematic plots and endings : clowning and comedy post-Hamlet : Measure for measure, All's well that ends well, The winter's tale, Cymbeline, The tempest -- The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies