A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The ComediesISBN: 978-1-4051-3607-5
Paperback
480 pages
August 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled
as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of
current Shakespeare criticism.
- Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more
established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada,
France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United
States.
- Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems,
using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance
studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
- Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely
the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late
plays, problem plays and poems.
- Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the
relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at
critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the
genre.
- Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.
This companion to Shakespeare’s comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night as well as twelve additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare’s comedies on film, Shakespeare’s relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare’s cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.