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The Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy / Shakespearean comedy edited by Alexander Leggatt. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. - xviii, 237 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to literature .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-233) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part 1: Shakespeare and comic tradition -- 1 Theories of comedy -- DAVID GALBRAITH -- 2 Roman comedy -- ROBERT S. MIOLA -- 3 Italian stories on the stage -- LOUISE GEORGE CLUBB -- 4 Elizabethan comedy -- JANETTE DILLON -- 5 Popular festivity -- FRANCOIS LAROQUE --Part 2: Shakespearean comedy -- 6 Forms of confusion -- JOHN CREASER -- 7 Love and courtship -- CATHERINE BATES -- 8 Laughing at "others" -- EDWARD BERRY -- 9 Comedy and sex -- ALEXANDER LEGGATT -- 10 Language and comedy -- LYNNE MAGNUSSON -- 11 Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender -- BARBARA HODGDON -- 12 Matters of state -- ANTHONY MILLER -- 13 The experiment of romance -- MICHAEL O'CONNELL.



ISBN: 0521779421 (pbk.) 978-0521779425

LCCN: 2001025933

Subjects--Personal Names:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Comedies--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Comedy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

LC Class. No.: PR2981 / .C36 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 822.33 C178 2002