The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies /
Gay, Penny, 1945-
The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies / Penny Gay. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - ix, 153 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge introductions to literature .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150) and index.
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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2007050651
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014500118 Uk
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Comedies.
English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
PR2981 / .G39 2008
822.33
The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies / Penny Gay. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - ix, 153 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge introductions to literature .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150) and index.
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.
9780521856683 (hbk.) 052185668X (hbk.) 9780521672696 (pbk.) 0521672694 (pbk.)
2007050651
GBA808745 bnb
014500118 Uk
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Comedies.
English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
PR2981 / .G39 2008
822.33