A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Volume III, (Vol. 3 of 4), The COMEDIES (SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM, PLAYS)

Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishing. New. 2003. Hardcover. 0631226346 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- This is one volume of a four volume set. -- All four volumes available as a set. -- SET IS FLAWLESS COPY - AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, WHY WAIT? -- REVIEW (S) - Library Journal: Compiled by Dutton (English, Ohio State Univ. ; editor, "Palgrave Literary Lives" series) and Howard (English, Columbia Univ. ; editor, The Norton Shakespeare) , this four-volume set offers a comprehensive view of current Shakespeare criticism, concentrating on ongoing critical research on Shakespeare's works. It is meant to complement the publisher's Companion to Shakespeare, which focuses on Shakespeare as an author.... The resulting multifaceted work provides a stimulating matrix for future critical research. - Vol. 1: The Tragedies, contains an essay on each tragedy and 13 additional essays on topics such as the Roman tragedies, film versions of the tragedies, and the tragic hero. Vol. 2: The Histories, contains an essay on each history play and 14 additional essays on topics such as riot and rebellion, censorship in the histories, and Shakespeare's portrayal of men and women. THE PRESENT VOLUME, Vol. 3: The Comedies, contains one essay each on most of the comedies and 12 essays discussing subjects such as Shakespeare's use of English stage comedy traditions, social relationships in comic households, and cross-dressing. VOL. 4: "The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays" contains essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and The Sonnets, and another 11 essays on topics such as place and space in the late plays, generic classification of the late plays, and scatology and satire. Each essay is enriched with notes and ample bibliographies, and indexes are provided for each volume. The intended audience of scholars and graduate students will be well served by this work. -Shana C. Fair, Ohio Univ. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS, VOL. 3: Notes on Contributors vii; Introduction 1; 1 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy 4; 2 Shakespeare's Festive Comedies 23; 3 The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy 47; 4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies 67; 5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households 90 6 Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies 114 7 The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies 137; 8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life 159; 9 Shakespeare's Comic Geographies 182; 10 Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare's Comedies 200; 11 Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff 223; 12 Wooing and Winning (Or Not) : Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre 243; 13 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 266; 14 "Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?" The Taming of the Shrew, Women's Jest, and the Divided Audience 289 15 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study 307; 16 Love's Labour's Lost 320; 17 A Midsummer Night's Dream 338; 18 Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice 358; 19 The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor 376 20 Much Ado About Nothing 393; 21 As You Like It 411; 22 Twelfth Night: "The Babbling Gossip of the Air" 429; Index. -- with a bonus offer-- .