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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature

Literary CriticismPlaysShakespeare

ISBN10: 0521770440
ISBN13: 9780521770446
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 20 2001
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
This introduction examines the continuity and variety of Shakepeare's work and the creative use he made of his inherited conventions. The first section places Shakespeare in the context of classical and Renaissance comedy, his Elizabethan predecessors and the traditions of popular festivity. The second section traces themes through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies, dark comedies and late romances, illuminating particular plays by close analysis,

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