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Shakespeare's Comedies

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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

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Utgivningsdatum2003-08-11
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBlackwell Guides to Criticism
Antal sidor336
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9780631220121

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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

"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