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

by Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E.

• ISBN13: 9781405136075
• ISBN10: 1405136073
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-26
• 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.

Author Biography

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (1997).

Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(3)
Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy	4	(19)
Janette Dillon
Shakespeare's Festive Comedies	23	(24)
Francois Laroque
The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy	47	(20)
Gail Kern Paster
Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies	67	(23)
Peter Holbrook
The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households	90	(24)
Mario DiGangi
Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies	114	(23)
Phyllis Rackin
The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies	137	(22)
Julie Crawford
Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life	159	(23)
Lena Cowen Orlin
Shakespeare's Comic Geographies	182	(18)
Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare's Comedies	200	(23)
Lloyd Davis
Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff	223	(20)
Ian Frederick Moulton
Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre	243	(23)
Barbara Hodgdon
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	266	(23)
Jeffrey Masten
``Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?'' The Taming of the Shrew, Women's Jest, and the Divided Audience	289	(18)
Pamela Allen Brown
The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study	307	(13)
Richard Dutton
Love's Labour's Lost	320	(18)
John Michael Archer
A Midsummer Night's Dream	338	(20)
Helen Hackett
Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice	358	(18)
Marion Wynne-Davies
The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor	376	(17)
Wendy Wall
Much Ado About Nothing	393	(18)
Alison Findlay
As You Like It	411	(18)
Juliet Dusinberre
Twelfth Night: ``The Babbling Gossip of the Air''	429	(18)
Penny Gay
Index	447