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Shakespeare's Comedies of Love.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442689107
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespeare's Comedies of LoveDDC classification:
  • 822.3/3
LOC classification:
  • PR2981 .S535 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Shakespeare's Comedies of Loveis a tribute to Alexander Leggatt, a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies.
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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.

Shakespeare's Comedies of Loveis a tribute to Alexander Leggatt, a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies.

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