Shakespeare's Comedies,9780333599327

Shakespeare's Comedies

by Ryan, Kiernan
ISBN13: 9780333599327
ISBN10: 0333599322
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-05-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Shakespeare's comedies are widely perceived as endorsing the dominant culture of their day. This provocative study contends that the reverse is true: that these plays sharpen our appetite for a transfigured world. Ryan charts the trajectory of Shakespearean comedy, from early experiments in the comedy of intrigue to haunting Jacobean romances.

Author Biography

KIERNAN RYAN is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London and a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare (3rd edition) and the editor of Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts.

Table of Contents

Preface
Killing Time: The Comedy of Errors
‘A Kind of History’: The Taming of the Shrew
Dancing Leviathans: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
‘Merry Days of Desolation’: Love’s Labours Lost’
The Seventh Man: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
‘The Deed of Kind’: The Merchant of Venice
‘Pribbles and Prabbles’: The Merry Wives of Windsor
‘Strange Misprison’: Much Ado About Nothing
‘Ducdame’: As You Like It
‘Nothing that is so, is so’: Twelfth Night
Works Cited
Index

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