A companion to Shakespeare's works . Volume III The comedies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (476 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.33
• Soggetto topico: English drama (Comedy)
• Altri autori: DuttonRichard <1948-> HowardJean E <1948-> (Jean Elizabeth)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy; 2 Shakespeare's Festive Comedies; 3 The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy; 4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies; 5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households; 6 Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies; 7 The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies; 8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life; 9 Shakespeare's Comic Geographies ; 10 Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare's Comedies11 Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff; 12 Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre; 13 The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 14 "Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?" The Taming of the Shrew, Women's Jest, and the Divided Audience; 15 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study; 16 Love's Labour's Lost; 17 A Midsummer Night's Dream; 18 Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice; 19 The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor ; 20 Much Ado About Nothing21 As You Like It; 22 Twelfth Night: "The Babbling Gossip of the Air"; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 g
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to Shakespeare's works
• ISBN: 1-281-31229-0; 9786611312299; 0-470-70406-3; 0-470-99655-2; 0-470-99729-X; 1-4175-3639-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996213972403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 19.