A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The Comedies,

by Editor: Richard Dutton (Ohio State University); Editor: Jean E. Howard

• ISBN13: 9780470997291
• ISBN10: 047099729X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings 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. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each 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. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy

ShakespeareÆs Festive Comedies

The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy

Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies

The Social Relations of ShakespeareÆs Comic Households

ShakespeareÆs Crossdressing Comedies

The Homoerotics of ShakespeareÆs Elizabethan Comedies

Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life

ShakespeareÆs Comic Geographies

Rhetoric and Comic Personation in ShakespeareÆs Comedies

Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff

Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

ÆFie, what a foolish duty call you this?Æ The Taming of the Shrew, WomenÆs Jest, and the Divided Audience

The Comedy of Errors and the Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study

LoveÆs LabourÆs Lost

A Midsummer NightÆs Dream

Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor

Much Ado About Nothing

As You Like It

Twelfth Night: æThe Babbling Gossip of the AirÆ

Index

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