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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014500118 Uk


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Comedies.


English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

PR2981 / .G39 2008

822.33