A Companion To Shakespeares Works Volume 3 Literature And Culture Richard Dutton by Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard 9780470996553, 9780631226345, 0470996552, 0631226346 instant download after payment.

The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s comedies.

• Contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night.
  
• Includes twelve additional articles 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.
  
• Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars.
  
• Complements David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context.
  
• Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies.

Content:
Chapter 1 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy (pages 4–22): Janette Dillon
Chapter 2 Shakespeare's Festive Comedies (pages 23–46): Francois Laroque
Chapter 3 The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy (pages 47–66): Gail Kern Paster
Chapter 4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies (pages 67–89): Peter Holbrook
Chapter 5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households (pages 90–113): Mario DiGangi
Chapter 6 Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies (pages 114–136): Phyllis Rackin
Chapter 7 The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies (pages 137–158): Julie Crawford
Chapter 8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life (pages 159–181): Lena Cowen Orlin
Chapter 9 Shakespeare's Comic Geographies (pages 182–199): Garrett A. Sullivan
Chapter 10 Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare's Comedies (pages 200–222): Lloyd Davis
Chapter 11 Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff (pages 223–242): Ian Frederick Moulton
Chapter 12 Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre (pages 243–265): Barbara Hodgdon
Chapter 13 The Two Gentlemen of Verona (pages 266–288): Jeffrey Masten
Chapter 14 “Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?” The Taming of the Shrew, Women's Jest, and the Divided Audience (pages 289–306): Pamela Allen Brown
Chapter 15 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study (pages 307–319): Richard Dutton
Chapter 16 Love's Labour's Lost (pages 320–337): John Michael Archer
Chapter 17 A Midsummer Night's Dream (pages 338–357): Helen Hackett
Chapter 18 Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice (pages 358–375): Marion Wynne?Davies
Chapter 19 The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor (pages 376–392): Wendy Wall
Chapter 20 Much Ado About Nothing (pages 393–410): Alison Findlay
Chapter 21 As You Like It (pages 411–428): Juliet Dusinberre
Chapter 22 Twelfth Night: “The Babbling Gossip of the Air” (pages 429–446): Penny Gay