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The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies
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The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies / Penny Gay.
ISBN
9780521856683 (hardback)
052185668X (hardback)
9780521672696 (pbk.)
0521672694 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
ix, 153 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 22, 2009
Series
Cambridge introductions to literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150) and index.
Contents
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.
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