Shakespeare's comedies
By: edited and introduced by Gary Waller.
Contributors: Waller, Gary F. 1945-
Series: Longman critical readers
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies.; Comedy.
Description: Discusses: The Comedy of errors, The Taming of the shrew, Love's labour's lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, As you like it, Twelfth Night, All's Well that ends well, Measure for measure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. "The Comedy of Errors" - a different kind of comedy, .W. Thomas MacCary 2. Renaissance family politics and Shakespeare's "Shrew", Karen Newman 3. Sport by sport o'erthrown - "Love's Labour's Lost" and the politics of play, Louis A.Montrose 4. Hermia's dream, Norman B.Holland 5. The story of the night told over - D.W.Winnicott's theory of play and "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Helen Golding 6. Broken nuptials in Shakespeare's comedies, Carol Thomas Neely 7. Ideology and class consciousness in "The Merchant of Venice", Frank Whigham 8. The cuckoo's mate - male friendship and cuckoldry in "The Merchant of Venice", Coppelia Kahn 9. Sexual politics and the social structure in "As You Like It", Peter B.Ericson 10. Comedy, orality and duplicity - "Twelfth Night", Terence Hawkes 11. Subjectivity, desire and female friendship in "All's Well That Ends Well", Carolyn Asp 12. Transgression and surveillance in "Measure for Measure", Jonathan Dollimore