The Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy
By: edited by Alexander Leggatt.
Contributors: Leggatt, Alexander.
Series: Cambridge companions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Comedy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Shakespearean comedy
Description: An accessible, wide-ranging, and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part 1: Shakespeare and comic tradition; title: 1 Theories of comedy; title: DAVID GALBRAITH; title: 2 Roman comedy; title: ROBERT S. MIOLA; title: 3 Italian stories on the stage; title: LOUISE GEORGE CLUBB; title: 4 Elizabethan comedy; title: JANETTE DILLON; title: 5 Popular festivity; title: FRANCOIS LAROQUE; title: Part 2: Shakespearean comedy; title: 6 Forms of confusion; title: JOHN CREASER; title: 7 Love and courtship; title: CATHERINE BATES; title: 8 Laughing at "others"; title: EDWARD BERRY; title: 9 Comedy and sex; title: ALEXANDER LEGGATT; title: 10 Language and comedy; title: LYNNE MAGNUSSON; title: 11 Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender; title: BARBARA HODGDON; title: 12 Matters of state; title: ANTHONY MILLER; title: 13 The experiment of romance; title: MICHAEL O'CONNELL.