TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gay, Penny
TI  - The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies
SN  - 9780521672696
U1  - R 822.33 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Cambridge
KW  - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
KW  - ENGLISH DRAMA
N1  - Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: comedy as idea and practice      1
2. Farce: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor                                      16
3. Courtly lovers and the real world: Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant Venice
4. Comedy and Language: Love's Labour's Lost
5. Romantic comedy: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night                                                 71
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        103
7 The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies 124

Includes conclusion, further readings, notes and index


ER  -