Shakespeare's Comedies

Informationen zum Autor Penny Gay is Professor of English and Drama at the University of Sydney. Klappentext A comprehensive survey of Shakespeare's comedies examining why and how they are still relevant today. Zusammenfassung Where did Shakespearean comedy come from? Where did it arrive? What makes it still relevant today? This comprehensive survey addresses these and many other questions! providing readers with a map of Shakespeare's comic styles! showing how he built on comedic conventions as he enriched the possibilities of the genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Comedy as idea and practice; 2. Farce: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor; 3. Courtly lovers and the real world: Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice; 4. Comedy and language: Love's Labour's Lost; 5. Romantic comedy: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night; 6. Problematic plots and endings: clowning post-Hamlet: Measure for Measure, All's Well that Ends Well, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest; 7. The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Penny Gay, Penny (University of Sydney) Gay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521672696
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67269-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge introduction to; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge introduction to
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies