This Companion to Shakespeare's comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night. In addition, the volume features twelve essays on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare's comedies on film, Shakespeare's relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare's cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.
This Companion to Shakespeare's comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night. In addition, the volume features twelve essays on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare's comedies on film, Shakespeare's relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare's cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.
Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (1997). Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England: Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series.
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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).
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).
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