The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

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Alexander Leggatt
Cambridge University Press, 2002 - 237 páginas
This is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. The first section places Shakespeare in the context of classical and Renaissance comedy, his Elizabethan predecessors and the traditions of popular festivity. The second section traces themes through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies, tragicomedies and late romances, illuminating particular plays by close analysis.

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Roman comedy
18
Italian stories on the stage
32
Elizabethan comedy
47
Popular festivity
64
Shakespearean comedy
70
Forms of confusion
81
Love and courtship
102
Laughing at others
123
Comedy and sex
139
IO Language and comedy
156
Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender
179
Matters of state
198
The experiment of romance
215
Select bibliography
230
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Alexander Leggatt is Professor of English at University College, University of Toronto. Among his books are: Citizen Comedy in the Age of Shakespeare (1973), Shakespeare's Comedy of Love (1974), Ben Jonson: his Vision and his Art (1981), English Drama: Shakespeare to the Restoration, 1590-1660 (1988), Shakespeare's Political Drama (1988), Jacobean Public Theatre (1992), English Stage Comedy 1490-1990: Five Centuries of a Genre (1998) and Introduction to English Renaissance Comedy (1999).

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