Dutton / Howard A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III

The Comedies
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99729-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 480 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiledas a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot ofcurrent Shakespeare criticism.
* * Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and moreestablished scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada,France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the UnitedStates.
* Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems,using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performancestudies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
* Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namelythe histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the lateplays, problem plays and poems.
* Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in therelevant category, as well as more general essays looking atcritical issues and approaches more widely relevant to thegenre.
* Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at thedawning of the twenty-first century.
This companion to Shakespeare's comedies contains originalessays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona toTwelfth Night as well as twelve additional articles on suchtopics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy,Shakespeare's comedies on film, Shakespeare's relationto other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare'scross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespeareancomedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dutton, Richard

Howard, Jean E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Introduction.
1. Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy:Janette Dillon (University of Nottingham).
2. Shakespeare's Festive Comedies: François Laroque(University of Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III).
3. The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline inShakespearean Comedy: Gail Kern Paster (Director of the FolgerShakespeare Library).
4. Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies: Peter Holbrook(University of Queensland).
5. The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households:Mario DiGangi (Lehman College).
6. Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies: Phyllis Rackin(Shakespeare Association of America).
7. The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies:Julie Crawford (Columbia University).
8. Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life: Lena Cowen Orlin(University of Maryland).
9. Shakespeare's Comic Geographies: Garrett A. Sullivan,Jr. (Pennsylvania State University).
10. Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare'sComedies: Lloyd Davis (University of Queensland).
11. Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff: IanFrederick Moulton (Arizona State University.
West).
12. Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and theSyntax of Genre: Barbara Hodgdon (Drake University).
13. The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Jeffrey Masten(Northwestern University).
14. "Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?" TheTaming of the Shrew, Women's Jest, and the DividedAudience: Pamela Allen Brown (University of Connecticut).
15. The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny ofApelles: An Exercise in Source Study: Richard Dutton (LancasterUniversity).
16. Love's Labour's Lost: John Michael Archer(University of New Hampshire).
17. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Helen Hackett(University College London).
18. Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant ofVenice: Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Dundee).
19. The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires inWindsor: Wendy Wall (Northwestern University).
20. Much Ado About Nothing: Alison Findlay (LancasterUniversity).
21. As You Like It:Juliet Dusinberre (Girton College,Cambridge).
22. Twelfth Night: "The Babbling Gossip of theAir": Penny Gay (University of Sydney).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of Englishat Columbia University and a past president of the ShakespeareAssociation of America. She is an editor of The NortonShakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage andSocial Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, withPhyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account ofShakespeare's English Histories (1997).
Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at OhioState University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: theRegulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) andLicensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early ModernEngland:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the PalgraveLiterary Lives series.