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The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies / Penny Gay.

By: Gay, Penny, 1945-.
Series: Cambridge introductions to literature. Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: ix, 153 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521856683 (hbk.); 052185668X (hbk.).Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Comedies | English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticismDDC classification: 822.33
Contents:
Introduction : comedy as idea and practice. - 2. Farce : The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor. - 3. Courtly lovers and the real world : Two gentlemen of Verona, A midsummer night's dream, The merchant of Venice. - 4. Comedy and language : Love's labour's lost. - 5. Romantic comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night. - 6. 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. - 7. The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150) and index.

Introduction : comedy as idea and practice. - 2. Farce : The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor. - 3. Courtly lovers and the real world : Two gentlemen of Verona, A midsummer night's dream, The merchant of Venice. - 4. Comedy and language : Love's labour's lost. - 5. Romantic comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night. - 6. 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. - 7. The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies.

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