Shakespeare's comedies
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Shakespeare's comedies
（Blackwell guides to criticism）
Blackwell Pub., 2004
- : alk. paper
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: alk. paper ISBN 9780631220114
Description
Criticism of Shakespeare's comedies has shifted from stressing their light-hearted and festive qualities to giving a stronger sense of their dark aspects and their social resonances. This volume introduces the key critical debates under five headings: genre, history and politics, gender and sexuality, language, and performance. The Guide serves students of Shakespeare in two ways. Firstly, by presenting ten recent critical interventions in the field of Shakespeare studies, it provides an up-to-date compendium of current scholarship. All the articles are contextualised with brief critical overviews and annotated suggestions for further reading. An additional chapter on pre-twentieth-century criticism is mainly in narrative form but excerpts significant early views by Johnson, Hazlitt and Coleridge. Thus, secondly, the volume acts as a guide to further reading to help students extend their knowledge of Shakespeare criticism.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgements 1 The Development of Criticism of Shakespeare's Comedies 2 Genre Marriage as Comic Closure False Immortality in Measure for Measure 3 Language Here Follows Prose Transfer of Title in Love's Labour's Lost 4 Gender and Sexuality Helena's Bed-trick The Homoerotics of Shakespearian Comedy 5 History and Politics Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Bottom's Up 6 Performance Kate: Interpreting the Silence As You Like It Index
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: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780631220121
Description
This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare's comedies over the last four centuries.
Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare's history plays.
Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.
Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.
Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.
Table of Contents
Preface. Acknowledgements.
1 The Development of Criticism of Shakespeare's Comedies.
2 Genre.
Marriage as Comic Closure.
False Immortality in Measure for Measure.
3 Language.
Here Follows Prose.
Transfer of Title in Love's Labour's Lost.
4 Gender and Sexuality.
Helena's Bed-trick.
The Homoerotics of Shakespearian.
Comedy.
5 History and Politics.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?.
Bottom's Up.
6 Performance.
Kate: Interpreting the Silence.
As You Like It.
Index
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