In this impressive volume Gary Waller brings together twelve of the most significant essays on Shakespeare's Comedies written since the late 1970s, and in a substantial Introduction and headnotes to each piece explores the ways in which recent literary and cultural theory has changed our ways of reading and responding to the plays.
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Shakespeare's Comedies Summary
Shakespeare's Comedies by Gary Waller
Brings together twelve of the most significant essays on
Table of Contents
1. "The Comedy of Errors" - a different kind of comedy, .W. Thomas MacCary 2. Renaissance family politics and Shakespeare's "Shrew", Karen Newman 3. Sport by sport o'erthrown - "Love's Labour's Lost" and the politics of play, Louis A.Montrose 4. Hermia's dream, Norman B.Holland 5. The story of the night told over - D.W.Winnicott's theory of play and "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Helen Golding 6. Broken nuptials in Shakespeare's comedies, Carol Thomas Neely 7. Ideology and class consciousness in "The Merchant of Venice", Frank Whigham 8. The cuckoo's mate - male friendship and cuckoldry in "The Merchant of Venice", Coppelia Kahn 9. Sexual politics and the social structure in "As You Like It", Peter B.Ericson 10. Comedy, orality and duplicity - "Twelfth Night", Terence Hawkes 11. Subjectivity, desire and female friendship in "All's Well That Ends Well", Carolyn Asp 12. Transgression and surveillance in "Measure for Measure", Jonathan Dollimore
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