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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Shakespeare's Comedies of Love
Contains:
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Illustrations -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- Part I. Contexts for Shakespeare’s Comedies of Love -- -- The Comedy of Love and the London Lord Mayor’s Show -- -- A ‘Pennyworth’ of Marital Advice: Bachelors and Ballad Culture in Much Ado About Nothing -- -- Shakespeare’s Comedies and American Club Women -- -- Part II. Love in Shakespeare’s Comedies -- -- ‘Five thousand year a boy’: Love as Arrested Development -- -- Love’s Labour’s Lost and Won -- -- Affecting Desire in Shakespeare’s Comedies of Love -- -- A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night’s Dream -- -- Love in the Contact Zone: Gender, Culture, and Race in The Merchant of Venice -- -- The Unity of Twelfth Night -- -- The Baby in the Handbag: ‘Family Matters’ in Shakespeare -- -- Part III. Shakespeare’s Comedies of Love on the Contemporary Stage -- -- ‘Songs of Apollo’: Love’s Labour’s Lost in 1961 -- -- Smitten: Staging Love at First Sight at The Stratford Festival -- -- Romancing The Shrew: Recuperating a Comedy of Love -- -- Love in a Naughty World: Modern Dramatic Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice -- -- Staging the Jew: Playing with the Text of The Merchant of Venice -- -- Works Cited -- -- Contributors -- -- Index
Footnote:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publishers Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)
Description:
Borrowing its title from renowned scholar Alexander Leggatt's landmark 1974 study, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies. To help celebrate his distinguished career as a teacher and scholar, this collection of essays presents a wide range of new work on the Bard's comedies. The contributors cover diverse areas of inquiry, including the use of the comedies as a source of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century America; civic drama in Elizabethan London; male anxiety about women in the comedies; anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice; as well as some key productions of Shakespeare's comedies. Rich in detail and broad in scope, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a celebration of Leggatt's distinguished career, and an enduring collection of work on the world's most famous writer.