Comedies
Subtitle: Volume 1
By: William Shakespeare ; with an introduction by Tony Tanner ; general editor, Sylvan Barnet.
Contributors: Tanner, Tony.; Barnet, Sylvan.
Series: Everyman's library -- 205
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780679443636
Copyright date: 1995
Work titles: Plays.
Description: Shakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His early com- edies — with their baroque poetic exuberance, intense theatricality, explosive bursts of humor, and superbly concrete realizations of the dialectics of love — capture as in a chrysalis all that he was to become. They provide a complete inventory of the mind of our greatest writer in the middle of his golden youth.
Table of contents: title: Introduction .; title: Select Bibliography; title: Chronology; title: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS; title: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW; title: THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA; title: LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST; title: ROMEO AND JULIET; title: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM