The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies
By: Penny Gay.
Series: Cambridge introductions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521856683; 9780521672696
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Comedies; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : comedy as idea and practice; title: Farce : The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor; title: Courtly lovers and the real world : Two gentlemen of Verona, A midsummer night's dream, The merchant of Venice; title: Comedy and language : Love's labour's lost; title: Romantic comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night; title: 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; title: The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies.