{"product_id":"a-companion-to-shakespeares-works-volume-iii-the-comedies-paperback-softback-9781405136075","title":"A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III; The Comedies (Paperback \/ softback) 9781405136075","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Comedies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Dutton (Edited by), R Dutton (Author), Jean E. Howard (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405136075, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 July 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e480 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.3 x 3.8 cm, 0.826 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Whether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism.\" \u003ci\u003eCahiers Elisabethains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis four-volume \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Shakespeare's Works,\u003c\/i\u003e compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVolumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis companion to Shakespeare's comedies contains original essays on every comedy from \u003ci\u003eThe Two Gentlemen of Verona\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eTwelfth Night\u003c\/i\u003e as well as twelve additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare's comedies on film, Shakespeare's relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare's cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy 4\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJanette Dillon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies 23\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrancois Laroque\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Humour of It: Bodies, Fluids and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy 47\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGail Kern Paster \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies 67\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Holbrook \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households 90\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMario DiGangi \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Shakespear’s Crossdressing Comedies 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhyllis Rackin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Homoerotics of Shakespear’s Elizabethan Comedies 137\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulie Crawford \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life 159\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLena Cowen Orlin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies 182\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGarett A. Sullivan, Jr. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies 200\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLloyd Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff 223\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIan Fredrick Moulton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film\/Shakespeare\/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre 243\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbare Hodgdon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 266\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeffery Masten \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 “Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?” The Taming of the Shrew, Women’s Jest, and the Divided Audience 289\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePamela Allen Brown \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study 307\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Dutton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Love’s Labour’s Lost 320\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e John Michael Archer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 338\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Hackett \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice 358\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMerion Wynne-Davis \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor 376\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWendy Wall \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Much Ado About Nothing 393\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlison Findlay \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 As You Like It 411\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJuliet Dusinberre \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Twelfth Night: “The Babbling Gossip of the Air” 429\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePenny Gay \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 44\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52472111169816,"sku":"9781405136075","price":36.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405136075.jpg?v=1785717368","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-companion-to-shakespeares-works-volume-iii-the-comedies-paperback-softback-9781405136075","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}