A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The Comedies

Introduction.

1. Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy: Janette Dillon.

2. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies: François Laroque.

3. The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy: Gail Kern Paster.

4. Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies: Peter Holbrook.

5. The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households: Mario DiGangi.

6. Shakespeare’s Crossdressing Comedies: Phyllis Rackin.

7. The Homoerotics of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Comedies: Julie Crawford.

8. Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life: Lena Cowen Orlin.

9. Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.

10. Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies: Lloyd Davis.

11. Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff: Ian Frederick Moulton.

12. Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre: Barbara Hodgdon.

13. The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Jeffrey Masten.

14. ‘Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?’ The Taming of the Shrew, Women’s Jest, and the Divided Audience: Pamela Allen Brown.

15. The Comedy of Errors and the Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study: Richard Dutton.

16. Love’s Labour’s Lost: John Michael Archer.

17. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Helen Hackett.

18. Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice: Marion Wynne-Davies.

19. The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor: Wendy Wall.

20. Much Ado About Nothing: Alison Findlay.

21. As You Like It : Juliet Dusinberre.

22. Twelfth Night: ‘The Babbling Gossip of the Air’: Penny Gay.

Index.