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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors. Introduction.
1. Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy: Janette Dillon.
2. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies: François Laroque.
3. The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy: Gail Kern Paster.
4. Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies: Peter Holbrook.
5. The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households: Mario DiGangi.
6. Shakespeare’s Crossdressing Comedies: Phyllis Rackin.
7. The Homoerotics of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Comedies: Julie Crawford.
8. Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life: Lena Cowen Orlin.
9. Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
10. Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies: Lloyd Davis.
11. Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff: Ian Frederick Moulton.
12. Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre: Barbara Hodgdon.
13. The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Jeffrey Masten.
14. ‘Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?’ The Taming of the Shrew, Women’s Jest, and the Divided Audience: Pamela Allen Brown.
15. The Comedy of Errors and the Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study: Richard Dutton.
16. Love’s Labour’s Lost: John Michael Archer.
17. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Helen Hackett.
18. Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice: Marion Wynne-Davies.
19. The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor: Wendy Wall.
20. Much Ado About Nothing: Alison Findlay.
21. As You Like It : Juliet Dusinberre.
22. Twelfth Night: ‘The Babbling Gossip of the Air’: Penny Gay.
Index.
