Shakespeare and comedy /

Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter...

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Main Author: Maslen, R. W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2005
Series:Arden critical companions.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; CONTENTS; TEXTUAL NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction; Chapter One Comic Manifestos; Chapter Two Comic Conversation and Rough Justice; Chapter Three Lightness, Love and Death; Chapter Four The Plural Bodies of Shakespeare's Boys; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 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.