Machine generated contents note: Part 1: Shakespeare and comic tradition -- 1 Theories of comedy -- DAVID GALBRAITH -- 2 Roman comedy -- ROBERT S. MIOLA -- 3 Italian stories on the stage -- LOUISE GEORGE CLUBB -- 4 Elizabethan comedy -- JANETTE DILLON -- 5 Popular festivity -- FRANCOIS LAROQUE --Part 2: 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.