The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's comedies /
Shakespeare's comedies
Penny Gay.
- Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008.
- ix, 153 p. ; 23 cm.
- Cambridge introductions to literature .
Introduction : comedy as idea and practice -- Farce : The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor -- Courtly lovers and the real world : Two gentlemen of Verona, A midsummer night's dream, The merchant of Venice -- Comedy and language : Love's labour's lost -- Romantic comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night -- Problematic plots and endings : clowning and comedy post-Hamlet : Measure for measure, All's well that ends well, The winter's tale, Cymbeline, The tempest -- The afterlives of Shakespeare's comedies.