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.
Mục lục
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
Giới thiệu về tác giả
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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