{"product_id":"a-companion-to-shakespeares-works-9780631226345","title":"A Companion to Shakespeares Works","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis four-volume \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Shakespeare''s Works,\u003c\/i\u003e compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines each of Shakespeare''s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVolumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the da\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy: Janette Dillon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies: François Laroque.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy: Gail Kern Paster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies: Peter Holbrook.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households: Mario DiGangi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Shakespeare’s Crossdressing Comedies: Phyllis Rackin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Homoerotics of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Comedies: Julie Crawford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life: Lena Cowen Orlin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies: Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies: Lloyd Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff: Ian Frederick Moulton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film\/Shakespeare\/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre: Barbara Hodgdon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Jeffrey Masten.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. ‘Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?’ The Taming of the Shrew, Women’s Jest, and the Divided Audience: Pamela Allen Brown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Comedy of Errors and the Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study: Richard Dutton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Love’s Labour’s Lost: John Michael Archer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Helen Hackett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice: Marion Wynne-Davies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor: Wendy Wall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Much Ado About Nothing: Alison Findlay.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. As You Like It : Juliet Dusinberre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Twelfth Night: ‘The Babbling Gossip of the Air’: Penny Gay.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403445510487,"sku":"9780631226345","price":158.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631226345.jpg?v=1730483494","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-shakespeares-works-9780631226345","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}