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

Richard Dutton (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3607-5

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480 pages

August 2005, Wiley-Blackwell

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Notes on Contributors.

Introduction.

1. Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy: Janette Dillon (University of Nottingham).

2. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies: François Laroque (University of Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III).

3. The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy: Gail Kern Paster (Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library).

4. Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies: Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland).

5. The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households: Mario DiGangi (Lehman College).

6. Shakespeare’s Crossdressing Comedies: Phyllis Rackin (Shakespeare Association of America).

7. The Homoerotics of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Comedies: Julie Crawford (Columbia University).

8. Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life: Lena Cowen Orlin (University of Maryland).

9. Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. (Pennsylvania State University).

10. Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies: Lloyd Davis (University of Queensland).

11. Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff: Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State University.

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

13. The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern University).

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

15. The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study: Richard Dutton (Lancaster University).

16. Love’s Labour’s Lost: John Michael Archer (University of New Hampshire).

17. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Helen Hackett (University College London).

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

19. The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor: Wendy Wall (Northwestern University).

20. Much Ado About Nothing: Alison Findlay (Lancaster University).

21. As You Like It:Juliet Dusinberre (Girton College, Cambridge).

22. Twelfth Night: “The Babbling Gossip of the Air”: Penny Gay (University of Sydney).

Index