The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies
Penny Gay
Cambridge, UK New York
Cambridge University Press
2008
ix, 153 p. 24 cm
Cambridge introductions to literature
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616--Comedies
English drama )Comedy(--History and criticism
PR
2981
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G39
2008
Gay, Penny,1945-
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