Shakespeare's Comedies / Edition 1

by Emma Smith

Overview

This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries.

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• 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631220121
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/10/2003
Series:	Blackwell Guides to Criticism
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (ed. 1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000).

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

Editorial Reviews

"clearly designed to make friendly that enormous and daunting edifice of Shakespeare criticism. [...] extremely helful historical and generic overviews" THES

[and talking about all three books together:]

"Altogether, either as the source of critical thinking or as reference guides and bibliographies, these volumes will prove convenient and interesting as auhtoritatively conducted tours of their domains." THES

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