The metamorphoses of Shakespearean comedy / William C. Carroll. by Carroll, William C., 1945-

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Beyond a common joy : an introduction to Shakespearean comedy / Paul A. Olson. by Olson, Paul A.

Table of Contents: “…On historical understandings of Shakespeare's works -- Shakespeare and the invention of grand comic form -- Shakespearean comedic myths -- Biblical story and festival enter Shakespearean comedy -- Empire and conquest in the comedies -- Measure for measure as form, myth, and Scripture.…”
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A companion to Shakespeare's works. edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard.

Table of Contents: “…The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy /…”
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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works : Volume 3, The Comedies. by Dutton, Richard

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Quoting Shakespeare : form and culture in early modern drama / Douglas Bruster. by Bruster, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- a note on texts -- Introduction -- Quoting Shakespeare -- Quoting Marlowe's Shepherd -- The Agency of Quotation in Shakespearean Comedy -- Quoting the Playhouse in The Tempest -- Quotation and Madwomen's Language -- A Renaissance of Quotation -- Afterword -- notes -- index.…”
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Politeness in Shakespeare. by Bouchara, Abdelaziz

Table of Contents: “…Politeness in Shakespeare; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Brown and Levinson model: some central concepts; 3 Politeness theory and literary discourse; 4 Applying the model to four Shakespearean comedies; 5 Conclusion; 6. References; 7 Appendix; Abdelaziz Bouchara.…”
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Shakespeare's Greek drama secret / by Myron Stagman. by Stagman, Myron

Table of Contents: “…; CONCLUSION; PART THREE; SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY; SHAKESPEAREAN HISTORY; SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY; PART FOUR; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY.…”
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Northrop Frye's Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance. by Frye, Northrop

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Credits and Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Argument of Comedy -- 2 Don Quixote -- 3 Comic Myth in Shakespeare -- 4 Characterization in Shakespearean Comedy -- 5 Molière's Tartuffe -- 6 Introduction to Shakespeare's Tempest -- 7 The Structure of Imagery in The Faerie Queene -- 8 Shakespeare's Experimental Comedy -- 9 Toast to the Memory of Shakespeare -- 10 The Tragedies of Nature and Fortune -- 11 How True a Twain -- 12 Recognition in The Winter's Tale -- 13 A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance -- Preface -- I: Mouldy Tales -- II: Making Nature Afraid -- III: The Triumph of Time -- IV: The Return from the Sea -- 14 Shakespeare and the Modern World -- 15 Nature and Nothing -- 16 Fools of Time -- Preface and Dedication -- I: My Father as He Slept: The Tragedy of Order -- II: The Tailors of the Earth: The Tragedy of Passion -- III: Little World of Man: The Tragedy of Isolation -- 17 General Editor's Introduction to Shakespeare Series -- 18 Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 19 Il Cortegiano -- 20 The Myth of Deliverance -- Preface -- I: The Reversal of Action -- II: The Reversal of Energy -- III: The Reversal of Reality -- 21 Something Rich and Strange: Shakespeare's Approach to Romance -- 22 The Stage Is All the World -- 23 Northrop Frye on Shakespeare -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: Romeo and Juliet -- II: A Midsummer Night's Dream -- III: The Bolingbroke Plays (Richard II, Henry IV) -- IV: Hamlet -- V: King Lear -- VI: Antony and Cleopatra -- VII: Measure for Measure -- VIII: Shakespeare's Romances: The Winter's Tale -- IX: The Tempest -- 24 Speech on Acceptance of the Governor General's Award for Northrop Frye on Shakespeare -- 25 Natural and Revealed Communities -- 26 Foreword to Unfolded Tales -- Notes -- Emendations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G.…”
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The Merchant of Venice with F. Murray Abraham

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Shakespeare Uncovered. with F. Murray Abraham.

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The text, the play, and the Globe : essays on literary influence in Shakespeare's world and his work in honor of Charles R. Forker / edited by Joseph Candido.

Table of Contents: “…Desai -- Across the narrow sea: the 1620 Leipzig volume of English plays / June Schlueter -- Shakespearean comedy and the boundaries of Europe / Michael Dobson -- George Wither's response to Othello -- David M. …”
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Shakespeare re-dressed : cross-gender casting in contemporary performance / edited by James C. Bulman

Table of Contents: “…Cross-dressing, drag, and passing: slippages in Shakespearean comedy / Jennifer Drouin -- Acting against the rules: remembering the eroticism of the Shakespearean boy actress / Roberta Barker -- Bringing Cheek by Jowl's As you like it out of the closet: the politics of queer theater / James C. …”
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Shakespeare's cinema of love : a study in genre and influence / R.S. White. by White, R. S.

Table of Contents: “…; Notes; 2 Dreams in the forest: romantic comedy; Shakespearean comedy as composite form; Dreams in a green world; Art writing the script of love: playing roles in As You Like It; Notes.…”
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The myth of deliverance : reflections on Shakespeare's problem comedies / Northrop Frye ; introduction by A.C. Hamilton. by Frye, Northrop

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Shakespeare's early comedies / by E.M.W. Tillyard. by Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962

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Shakespeare and platonic beauty / John Vyvyan. by Vyvyan, John

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Shakespeare's comic commonwealths / Camille Wells Slights. by Slights, Camille Wells

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