Shakespearean comedy

Item details

ISBN: 0931196078 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN: 9780931196072 (lib. bdg.)
Physical Description: print
xi, 308 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : New York Literary Forum, c1980.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Bibliography: p. 293-299.
Formatted Contents Note:	[I. Plautus, Terence, Donatus, and the noeclassical tradition] -- Shakespeare's comic remedies / Ruth Nevo -- The conscious art of The comedy of errors / Catherine M. Shaw -- Wise saws and modern instances : the relevance of Donatus / Susan Snyder -- What neoclassical criticism tells us about what Shakespeare does not do / Harriett Hawkins -- [II. Ovidian transformations] -- The ending of Twelfth night and the tradition of metamorphosis / William C. Carroll -- Ovid's Metamorphoses and Shakespeare's Twelfth night / M.E. Lamb -- Animals as agents of revelation : the horizontalizing of the chain of being in Shakespeare's comedies / Jeanne Addison Roberts -- [III. Assumptions of romance : ideal comedy and the night world] -- The tempest and ideal comedy / Douglas L. Peterson -- Come hell or high water : Shakespearean romantic comedy / David M. Bergeron -- "Wild laughter in the throat of death" : darker purposes in Shakespearean comedy / Marjorie Garber -- [IV. Italian comedy : mixed genres and the professional troupes] -- Shakespeare's comedy and late cinquecento mixed genres / Louise George Clubb -- Pantaloons and zanies : Shakespeare's "apprenticeship" to Italian professional comedy troupes / Ninian Mellamphy -- [V. The popular tradition : orality, villainy, and doubling] -- Comedy, orality, and duplicity : A midsummer night's dream and Twelfth night / Terence Hawkes -- Comic villainy in Shakespeare and Middleton / Maurice Charney -- The doubling of parts in Shakespearean comedy : some questions of theory and practice / Avraham Oz -- [VI. Comic characters : Falstaff and Malvolio] -- Falstaff and the life of shadows / Leo Salingar -- Strategies of inconclusiveness in Henry IV, pt. 1 / Elizabeth Freund -- Malvolio : comic puritan automaton / Paul N. Siegel -- [VII. Theory of comedy : psychoanalysis and semiotics] -- Errors in comedy : a psychoanalytic theory of farce / Barbara Freedman -- Semiotics and Shakespeare's comedies / Marion Trousdale -- [VIII. Texts and documents] -- Ancient theories of comedy : the treatises of Evanthius and Donatus / S. Georgia Nugent -- Forum reviews : recent books on Shakespearean comedy / Malcolm Kiniry.