The Cambridge companion to Shakespearean comedy /

• Other Authors: Leggatt, Alexander 1940- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Series: Cambridge companions to literature
• Subjects: Shakespeare- William > 1564-1616 > Κωμωδίες; Κωμωδία > Ιστορία και κριτική; Θέατρο > Αγγλία > 16ος αιώνας

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1: Shakespeare and comic tradition
• Theories of comedy / David Galbraith
• Roman comedy / Robert S. Miola
• Italian stories on the stage / Louise George Clubb
• Elizabethan comedy / Janette Dillon
• Popular festivity / François Laroque
• pt. 2: Shakespearean comedy
• Forms of confusion / John Creaser
• Love and courtship / Catherine Bates
• Laughing at "others" / Edward Berry
• Comedy and sex / Alexander Leggatt
• Language and comedy / Lynne Magnusson
• Sexual disguise and the theatre of gender / Barbara Hodgdon
• Matters of state / Anthony Miller
• The experiment of romance / Michael O'Connell.