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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
1 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy 4
Janette Dillon
2 Shakespeare’s Festive Comedies 23
Francois Laroque
3 The Humour of It: Bodies, Fluids and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy 47
Gail Kern Paster
4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies 67
Peter Holbrook
5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare’s Comic Households 90
Mario DiGangi
6 Shakespear’s Crossdressing Comedies 114
Phyllis Rackin
7 The Homoerotics of Shakespear’s Elizabethan Comedies 137
Julie Crawford
8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life 159
Lena Cowen Orlin
9 Shakespeare’s Comic Geographies 182
Garett A. Sullivan, Jr.
10 Rhetoric and Comic Personation in Shakespeare’s Comedies 200
Lloyd Davis
11 Fat Knight, or What You Will: Unimitable Falstaff 223
Ian Fredrick Moulton
12 Wooing and Winning (Or Not): Film/Shakespeare/Comedy and the Syntax of Genre 243
Barbare Hodgdon
13 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 266
Jeffery Masten
14 “Fie, what a foolish duty call you this?” The Taming of the Shrew, Women’s Jest, and the Divided Audience 289
Pamela Allen Brown
15 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study 307
Richard Dutton
16 Love’s Labour’s Lost 320
John Michael Archer
17 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 338
Helen Hackett
18 Rubbing at Whitewash: Intolerance in The Merchant of Venice 358
Merion Wynne-Davis
19 The Merry Wives of Windsor: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor 376
Wendy Wall
20 Much Ado About Nothing 393
Alison Findlay
21 As You Like It 411
Juliet Dusinberre
22 Twelfth Night: “The Babbling Gossip of the Air” 429
Penny Gay
Index 44
