Shakespeare's ComediesEmma Smith This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries.
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Contents
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2 Genre | 29 |
3 Language | 81 |
4 Gender and Sexuality | 132 |
5 History and Politics | 192 |
6 Performance | 242 |
Index | 305 |
Common terms and phrases
actors All’s Angelo Antonio anxiety Arden argues audience becomes bed-trick Bertram Bianca body Cambridge Celia characters Claudio comic critics cultural death desire difference discussion drama Duke Duke’s early modern Elizabethan English erotic essay fantasy father female feminine feminist festive Fiona Fiona Shaw Ganymede gender hath Helena heterosexual homoerotic homoeroticism immortality Isabella Jaques Kate Kate’s King language linguistic literary London Love’s Labor’s Lost male marriage masculine Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice metaphor Methuen Midsummer Night’s Dream moral nature Navarre Navarre’s ofthe Orlando Oxford patriarchal performance Petruchio play’s political Portia problem Problem Comedies production prose reading Renaissance ritual role romance Rosalind Routledge scene seems sense sexual Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare’s Comedies Shakespeare’s plays Shrew Shylock Sinead Cusack social speak speech stage structures suggests Taming theatre theatrical Theseus thou tion tragedies transvestism Twelfth Night University Press verse virginity Winter’s Tale woman women words