The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies
First Statement of Responsibility
Penny Gay
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, UK New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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ix, 153 p. 24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge introductions to literature
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616--Comedies
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English drama )Comedy(--History and criticism
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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PR
Book number
2981
Classification Record Number
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G39
2008
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
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Gay, Penny,1945-
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 141-150( and index.
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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