Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths / / Camille Wells Slights.
Challenging the traditional view that Shakespeare’s early comedies are about the experience of romantic love and constitute a genre called romantic comedy, Camille Wells Slights demonstrates that they dramatize individual action in the context of social dynamics, reflecting and commenting on the cul...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- Part I: Belonging
- 2. Egeon's Friends and Relations: The Comedy of Errors
- 3. The Raw and the Cooked in The Taming of the Shrew
- Part II: Cultural Values and the Values of Culture
- 4. Common Courtesy in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- 5. Learning and Language in Love's Labor's Lost
- Part III: Change and Continuity
- 6. The Changes and Chances of Mortal Life in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 7. Deserving and Diversity in The Merchant of Venice
- Part IV: Court and Country
- 8. Pastoral and Parody in The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 9. The Unauthorized Language of Much Ado About Nothing
- Part V: Renewal and Reciprocity
- 10. Changing Places in Arden: As You Like It
- 11. The Principle of Recompense in Twelfth Night
- 12. Conclusion
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX