This Guide introduces students to critical writing on
Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries.
* * Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on
Shakespeare’s history plays.
* Covers both significant early views and recent critical
interventions.
* Substantial editorial material links the articles and places
them in context.
* Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to
investigate further.
Table of Content
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1 The Development of Criticism of Shakespeare’s Comedies.
2 Genre.
Marriage as Comic Closure.
False Immortality in Measure for Measure.
3 Language.
Here Follows Prose.
Transfer of Title in Love’s Labour’s Lost.
4 Gender and Sexuality.
Helena’s Bed-trick.
The Homoerotics of Shakespearian.
Comedy.
5 History and Politics.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?.
Bottom’s Up.
6 Performance.
Kate: Interpreting the Silence.
As You Like It.
Index
About the author
Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (ed. 1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000).
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