TY - BOOK AU - Bamford,Karen TI - Shakespeare's Comedies of Love SN - 9781442689107 AV - PR2981 .S535 2008 U1 - 822.3/3 PY - 2008/// CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Comedies KW - Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: CONTEXTS FOR SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES OF LOVE -- The Comedy of Love and the London Lord Mayor's Show -- A 'Pennyworth' of Marital Advice: Bachelors and Ballad Culture in Much Ado About Nothing -- Shakespeare's Comedies and American Club Women -- PART TWO: LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES -- 'Five thousand year a boy': Love as Arrested Development -- Love's Labour's Lost and Won -- Affecting Desire in Shakespeare's Comedies of Love -- A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Love in the Contact Zone: Gender, Culture, and Race in The Merchant of Venice -- The Unity of Twelfth Night -- The Baby in the Handbag: 'Family Matters' in Shakespeare -- PART THREE: SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES OF LOVE ON THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE -- 'Songs of Apollo': Love's Labour's Lost in 1961 -- Smitten: Staging Love at First Sight at The Stratford Festival -- Romancing The Shrew: Recuperating a Comedy of Love -- Love in a Naughty World: Modern Dramatic Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice -- Staging the Jew: Playing with the Text of The Merchant of Venice -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z N2 - Shakespeare's Comedies of Loveis a tribute to Alexander Leggatt, a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4672671 ER -